On Thu, Apr 2, 2026 at 05:18 PM, workerpoet wrote: > > The cooperatives and their local dominance continues in the Madragon area > of Spain.
If you mean the Mondragon conglomerate of firms: • Thirty percent of the workers are owner-members; the remainder are temporary workers or hired labor in foreign branches. • To become an owner-member, you must first work two years as a hiree, then you buy in with a required €15,000 "capital." You can pay this by taking a reduced salary or by borrowing from the Mondragon bank. • Trade unions are not permitted, because the worker is the employer (ignoring the 70% of the workers who are not owner-members). • The wages of the highest- and lowest-paid employees are allowed a spread of 6-to-1. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41323): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41323 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118607353/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
