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You commented that employees should have a say on the direction of the company... That's a socialist concept.

• NeedMoreTea 7y ago
  For clarity, are Ireland and Germany socialist countries? Both require employee representation on boards, as do many other not-socialist countries. Germany also has works councils.
  • NotPaidToPost 7y ago
    The concept is socialist. You are trying a rhetoric trick by equating that to a socialist economy... That's bad faith. The truth is that employees do not dictate the direction of the company in those countries. They have virtually no power and the system is used as a discussion platform on working conditions, pay, etc. This is not quite the same as having employees decide what the company should produce and to whom it should sell it.
    • NeedMoreTea 7y ago
      No I'm not, I was asking the question. They both require one third of the board to be employee representatives. It might even be half for larger German companies. How does getting to vote on decisions and appointments equate to having virtually no power? German work's councils, for all their imperfections and flaws, have often been looked at enviously by other Western countries - including US and UK. It is those which deal with conditions, pay and what have you.
• eropple 7y ago
  Policies are not "socialist" or "capitalist"; they're...policies. You pick what works. Judging from the pretty consistent success of labor participation on boards in other companies, it certainly seems to help make a good chunk of money, too. That such organization tends to also have societal value--weird that thinking about societal value gets conflated with "socialism", I guess every man is an island--is a really nice side effect, though.