Workers center organizer Wing Lam once told me, "we are not into denounce, denounce, denounce. We want to organize." This story on workers at food co-ops is long on denunciation -- food co-ops are a "capitalist hellhole"? -- but raises important points. What do folks here know about NCG, CDS and UNFI ?

http://organizing.work/2019/04/why-do-coops-hate-unions/

#FoodCoops
#union
#coopitalism

Problematic article in #HarvardBusinessReview -- is it just about stock ownership (workers giving the company more money) and being given "a say" in how we are exploited and by whom? In the workers movement we talk about "business unionism" -- this sounds like "business cooperativism." And once again, while #Mondragon's achievements are used to justify coops to business people, Mondragon's "deslizo" into "#coopitalism" is not mentioned. Good developments, bad strategy.

https://hbr.org/2018/08/why-the-u-s-needs-more-worker-owned-companies

Very interesting article on Mondragon's international subsidiaries by Anjel Errasti:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324389705_COOPERATIVES_AT_THE_THRESHOLD_OF_A_NEW_ERA_THE_MULTINATIONAL_TRANSFORMATION_OF_MONDRAGON
#mondragon #coopitalism #multinationals #fagorederlan

@emi Here is the article by Pun Ngai I mentioned. I also recommend George Cheney's little book: Values at Work.
#mondragon #coopitalism #china
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270599565_The_challenge_for_Mondragon_Searching_for_the_cooperative_values_in_times_of_internationalization