Cohousing-L Mailing List: Culture Against Society and the Soul of Cohousing? Re: Dynamic Governance & Unions [was hotel/ union ]

[Wayne Tyson (landrest]

CoHo: 

Those interested in more details might want to look into the Mondragón system 
and other forms of "caring capitalism." As the form of capitalism that has 
become increasingly commonplace in the US and other parts of the world 
increase, and as people increasingly want more, not less control over their own 
lives and destinies, alternatives to fill the voids thus created may yet feed a 
transformative trend toward more cooperation and responsibility that actually 
begins to reflect, for example, the increasingly abandoned core values of 
mutualism like those upon which this country was supposedly founded. 

Authoritarian personalities always will seek (ironically) to manipulate and to 
be manipulated, again ironically characteristic of both high ambition and lazy 
subordination. 

WT 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Villines" <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 7:07 PM
Subject: [C-L]_ Dynamic Governance & Unions [was hotel/ union ]



On 4 Apr 2011, at 7:27 PM, R.N. Johnson wrote:
Just to give a little background, anti-union management often ask for a secret 
ballot, because this gives them an opportunity to stall the election for months 
and years, intimidating workers in the meantime.

I'm not sure why this stalls the election. Unions want secret ballots and in 
some states the election is not legal if the ballots are not secret. The 
intimidation is huge if management can determine who voted for the union and 
who against. There are good procedures for determining that a vote has been 
legally cast and counted.

In The Netherlands where unions are mandatory, sociocratic, dynamically 
governed businesses are exempt because the workers are better protected than 
with a union. They become part of the decision-making and budget process. All 
workers receive both market rate wages and what we call bonuses that are based 
on company profits.

Sharon

Sharon Villines
SocioNet: Network for Sociocracy, Governing by Consent
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