Workers should retire collective bargaining. Public Union workers should quit. Then they should incorporate. Then they should bid for government contracts.
A contract that is renegotiated regularly.
What if unions became worker cooperatives or collectives
Workers would own and run collective, with profits or benefits shared among them.
They would contract their workers out to corporations
They negotiate the wage and benefits of the workers in the contract.
They would not be direct employees of the company
They would create their own customer base and advertise for work
"Worker cooperatives are business entities that are owned and controlled by their members, the people who work in them.
The two central characteristics of worker coopratives are:
(1) workers invest in and own the business and
(2) decision-making is democratic, generally adhering to the principle of one worker-one vote.
The international worker cooperative federation CICOPA established some basic standards for worker cooperatives in the World Declaration on Cooperative Worker Ownership (also known as the Oslo Declaration) at a meeting in Oslo, Norway in 2003. The US Federation of Worker Cooperatives uses this document to determine worker cooperative status."
oslo declaration
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www.usworkers.coop
www.american.coop
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*original post Feb 2012
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