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Consumer-owned co-op unionizes; new general manager describes previous conflict between management and employees as a terrible episode in co-op history (ithacavoice.org)
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[โ€“] Enkrod@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Co-ops are a good thing, unionized co-ops (if the workers aren't the owners anyway) is even better.

Consumer-owned does still have a big potential of conflict between owners and workers, a union can absolutely help with that.

An even better model is a multi-stakeholder co-op where consumers and workers both own shares.

[โ€“] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not very familiar with consumer co-ops beyond "the thing that keeps popping up when I try to look into worker co-ops". What do you get out of a multi-stakeholder co-op that's better than a pure worker's co-op?