I always bring this up when Mondragon comes up as a coop because it's an economic reality that doesn't typically get addressed: The Basque organization is the only part of the international...
I always bring this up when Mondragon comes up as a coop because it's an economic reality that doesn't typically get addressed: The Basque organization is the only part of the international corporation that is a coop and it is built on similar structures as any other multinational corporation.
This isn't to say it's an evil company , the "board" is all workers for the central organizations in a sense, rather than 6-12 people hired solely to try to profit from the company. This is to say that "Mondragon is a coop" is a surface-level analysis that even the New Yorker has stopped at, which is a common starting point. The main governing companies of Mondragon are coops, but the other areas, particularly manufacturing overseas/around the world, are not part of this structure and are still ultimately subject to the decisions of the worker-owners, and do not get votes in decisions that could affect them.
I always bring this up when Mondragon comes up as a coop because it's an economic reality that doesn't typically get addressed: The Basque organization is the only part of the international corporation that is a coop and it is built on similar structures as any other multinational corporation.
This isn't to say it's an evil company , the "board" is all workers for the central organizations in a sense, rather than 6-12 people hired solely to try to profit from the company. This is to say that "Mondragon is a coop" is a surface-level analysis that even the New Yorker has stopped at, which is a common starting point. The main governing companies of Mondragon are coops, but the other areas, particularly manufacturing overseas/around the world, are not part of this structure and are still ultimately subject to the decisions of the worker-owners, and do not get votes in decisions that could affect them.