A well treated slave at the end of the day is still a slave, if you want to be free you have to organize with other workers and actually open your own democratically governed factories. You can work with other cooperative companies, buy from eachother and support eachother, or you can go back to the boss man and whimper like a dog for better pay and sick leave, when you do all the work to grow the company and make him rich. That paycheck isn't your pay it's your cut after he's taken his.
Maybe if the serfs would stop asking the king for more oats and better treatment, and instead went into business for themselves, they'd be better off.
What's the point of unionizing when at the end of the day you still go back to work as a disposable commodity under a baron who holds a private monopoly over the workplace and the means of production? How can you expect worker's democracy under such a system.
This is a great piece of work - congratulations to American Rights at Work. But can't we get beyond a rights-based argument when we discuss democracy at work? If power were truly shared at work (ie democracy!) then we wouldn't be discussing the right to organize or to be heard - these would be a given. Workplace democracy neesds to challenge the underlying master-servant relationship. If we have no real control in the workplace then our rights at work will always be given and taken back at will.
A well treated slave at the end of the day is still a slave, if you want to be free you have to organize with other workers and actually open your own democratically governed factories. You can work with other cooperative companies, buy from eachother and support eachother, or you can go back to the boss man and whimper like a dog for better pay and sick leave, when you do all the work to grow the company and make him rich. That paycheck isn't your pay it's your cut after he's taken his.
Laughingblades 3 months ago
Maybe if the serfs would stop asking the king for more oats and better treatment, and instead went into business for themselves, they'd be better off.
What's the point of unionizing when at the end of the day you still go back to work as a disposable commodity under a baron who holds a private monopoly over the workplace and the means of production? How can you expect worker's democracy under such a system.
Laughingblades 3 months ago
Ahmen
yoransom 2 years ago
This is a great piece of work - congratulations to American Rights at Work. But can't we get beyond a rights-based argument when we discuss democracy at work? If power were truly shared at work (ie democracy!) then we wouldn't be discussing the right to organize or to be heard - these would be a given. Workplace democracy neesds to challenge the underlying master-servant relationship. If we have no real control in the workplace then our rights at work will always be given and taken back at will.
phj2009 3 years ago