Our worker cooperative has been operating on consensus for three years, but lately some members are making unilateral decisions about client work and pay rates, and when we try to address it they say consensus is too slow for business reality. We started this to be different from exploitative workplaces but we're struggling with how to maintain our values while actually running a sustainable business.
More people experience this than they realize.
The tension between cooperative ideals and operational efficiency is testing the group's commitment to shared power.
“Where Are You with Labor rights and worker justice?”
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