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I've been an employee of a Canadian Co-op, and the union and the company were really the same thing (a captured union)... so where will you vote? Nearly the wor
by Nomentatus 9y ago
I've been an employee of a Canadian Co-op, and the union and the company were really the same thing (a captured union)... so where will you vote? Nearly the worst working conditions I've ever encountered.
- fallingfrog 9y agoI believe you, but that's just a bizarre situation because a) in a coop do you not just vote on who the management is and how salaries and working conditions are set? And b) your coop needs a union??? Representing the workers against who? We must not have the same definition of coop. Again I'm not saying you're making anything up, that's just quite astonishing.
- Nomentatus 9y agoI should have mentioned that the customers were all members of the Co-op; so that drowned out the votes of the workers. We BADLY needed a union, management was only interested in serving themselves, which they could do well enough 'cause few members voted. Remember that corruption and Co-ops have a long history in the U.S - early Life Insurance companies, many of which survive, were formed as Co-ops 'cause they founders knew the policy holders wouldn't show up to vote: therefore management could pay themselves very well and structure the company to serve themselves.
- fallingfrog 9y agoWell that's enlightening..