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[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago

Mountain Equipment ~~Coop ~~ Company is a sad example of a coop that got sold pretty much out from under it's membership.

I'd posit the best option would be a crown corporation operated at arm's length, for the reasons you cite about MTS (and Potash, and Telus, and Petro Canada, etc, etc.) so that the company could remain solvent, but would be relatively immune from the neoliberal addiction to public/private partnerships.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

MEC was not a workers' co-op though. It was a members' co-op and I don't even know what the voting structure was - whether it was one member one vote or something else. Simply saying co-op is kinda meaningless but I think the original comment mentioning it meant a workers' co-op, one-person-one-vote. That's a specific configuration that creates a democratic workplace which has been shown to be resilient. It mitigates bad decisions being done by a small exec team. I certainly mean this when I say co-op.

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