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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 1613940" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><a href="http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-sanders-campaign-issues-truly-extraordinary-campaign-plank-0" target="_blank">http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-sanders-campaign-issues-truly-extraordinary-campaign-plank-0</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>apparently hes a little weak on foreign policy, but otherwise is great.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://berniesanders.com/issues/" target="_blank">https://berniesanders.com/issues/</a></p><p></p><p>Among the 12 platform planks that he published:</p><p></p><p>"creating worker cooperatives"</p><p>"We need to develop new economic models to increase job creation and productivity. Instead of giving huge tax breaks to corporations which ship our jobs to China and other low-wage countries, we need to provide assistance to workers who want to purchase their own businesses by establishing worker-owned cooperatives. Study after study shows that when workers have an ownership stake in the businesses they work for, productivity goes up, absenteeism goes down and employees are much more satisfied with their jobs"</p><p></p><p>to hell with capitalism. workers rise up, fire you boss, and give yourselves better work/life ballance!</p><p></p><p>Within the various units of <strong>cooperatives, workers decide on the direction of production for the company as well as what to do with the profits.</strong></p><p></p><p>While CEO-to-worker pay ratios in capitalist corporations in the United States have reached over 300-to-1, in Mondragon the <strong>cooperative model</strong> ensures that in most of its operations, “the ratio of compensation between top executives and the lowest-paid members is between <strong>three to one and six to one.”</strong></p><p></p><p>By endorsing their expansion, Sanders is proving that his differences with his opponents are not just in style but in substance – <strong>providing an alternative to the top-down corporations that run our economy.</strong></p><p></p><p>there are 11,000 cooperatives in america. I guess alot of americans really like socialism...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 1613940, member: 56035"] [URL]http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-sanders-campaign-issues-truly-extraordinary-campaign-plank-0[/URL] apparently hes a little weak on foreign policy, but otherwise is great. [URL]https://berniesanders.com/issues/[/URL] Among the 12 platform planks that he published: "creating worker cooperatives" "We need to develop new economic models to increase job creation and productivity. Instead of giving huge tax breaks to corporations which ship our jobs to China and other low-wage countries, we need to provide assistance to workers who want to purchase their own businesses by establishing worker-owned cooperatives. Study after study shows that when workers have an ownership stake in the businesses they work for, productivity goes up, absenteeism goes down and employees are much more satisfied with their jobs" to hell with capitalism. workers rise up, fire you boss, and give yourselves better work/life ballance! Within the various units of [B]cooperatives, workers decide on the direction of production for the company as well as what to do with the profits.[/B] While CEO-to-worker pay ratios in capitalist corporations in the United States have reached over 300-to-1, in Mondragon the [B]cooperative model[/B] ensures that in most of its operations, “the ratio of compensation between top executives and the lowest-paid members is between [B]three to one and six to one.”[/B] By endorsing their expansion, Sanders is proving that his differences with his opponents are not just in style but in substance – [B]providing an alternative to the top-down corporations that run our economy.[/B] there are 11,000 cooperatives in america. I guess alot of americans really like socialism... [/QUOTE]
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