You're absolutely right, and I think this is more an assumption about cooperatives rather than how cooperatives actually work. For example, Mondragon is a feder

You're absolutely right, and I think this is more an assumption about cooperatives rather than how cooperatives actually work. For example, Mondragon is a federation of coops some of which have hundreds of employees; they're not going to have a debate with everybody about everything. Another way to think about it is that cooperatives are the ultimate expression of a democratic workplace. Yet it's not as if every law were discussed by everybody in a democracy. In a way, that shows that we have a lot to learn about how cooperatives can work. The quote of the union representative is very relevant: Cooperatives aren't magic dust, even though I personally believe that they are one of the key tools for dealing with the problems of capitalism. As a society, we simply have too little understanding of how cooperatives work, and until enough experiences is collected and networks exist to advise founders of cooperatives, and all those other little things that help traditional business founders are extended to cooperatives, it's going to be difficult.