7/6/2005
AlterNet: A World Without Bosses?
Found on AlterNet:
A World Without Bosses?
A handful of Northern California collectives take cues from an innovative Basque cooperative in Northern Spain.
Between the $17+/hr wages these owner/employees and their per-hour profit-sharing bonus’ these guys are making $30/hr for working in a pizza shop (that’s $60K/yr). Everyone makes the dough, everyone works the counter and everyone has a vote in business decisions.
From a comment below the piece:
For far too long have we enabled the elite class by providing our labor in return for far too little control and minisicule economic return. A prime example of this is pay ratios: in hierarchical corporation pay ratios can get as high as 200 to 1 (executives and owners get 200 times as much pay as the people near the bottom of their hierarchy) ; whereas worker cooperatives consciously limit their pay range to usually a maximum range of 6 to 1, and more typically 1 to 1 or 2 to 1.
Do we really want to work 60 hours a week to fatten someone else’s wallet so much more than our own?
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