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The Company We Keep

Dear Reader,
This blog is now an archive. John Abrams (Founder of South Mountain, author of this blog, and a book of the same name) retired on December 31, 2022. All posts published up until this date are preserved below.

For updates on John's next chapter, visit abramsangell.com.

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Alvarado Street Bakery

An Historic Alliance

November 10, 2009 by John Abrams 7 Comments

My friend David Smathers of the TeamWorks Cooperative Network in California writes:

“The Mondragon cooperatives and the United Steelworkers have announced an historic partnership through which they will buy or start manufacturing businesses in the U.S. and Canada that will combine Mondragon’s democratic structure of ownership and governance with collective bargaining.

It will take many years to implement.  But particularly in the face of the economic crisis that has exposed Wall Street’s failure to provide responsible stewardship of the economy, this is a very heartening development.  Together, these two institutions have the resources, technical expertise, and vision to demonstrate to the public that it is possible to structure and run large corporations in entirely different ways than what we have become accustomed to.”

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Filed Under: Economic Crisis, Employee Ownership, Workplace Democracy Tagged With: Alvarado Street Bakery, Capitalism: A Love Story, Employee ownership, Isthmus Engineering, Mondragon, South Mountain Company, TeamWorks, U.S. Steelworkers, Worker Cooperatives, Workplace Democracy

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