Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B

Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by _jal on Friday June 16, 2017 @12:46PM (#14570463)

It is important to note that the antagonism between union and management is especially bad in the U.S. Germany demonstrates one arrangement that generally works to align the interests of the two.

Just calling this out to try to counter the tendency of U.S. folks to assume that there is only one, unchanging form of capitalism. In fact, ours is increasingly a weird outlier.

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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by euyyn on Friday June 16, 2017 @01:12PM (#14570734)

What is that arrangement? How are their interests aligned?

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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by noir_lord on Friday June 16, 2017 @01:17PM (#14570779)

Unions have a board seat in larger SME's as well as much greater clarity on internal plans and finances.

Makes hard decisions easier since the union and employees can see why decisions are made.

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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by Spooky23 on Friday June 16, 2017 @01:43PM (#14571072)

Organized labor is treated as stakeholders in the enterprise vs a counter-party in the US.

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Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B by rmc on Sunday June 18, 2017 @05:55AM (#14579887)

If a certain amount of workers agree they can form a workers council which is a legally protected union within the company. And they have much stronger legal rights, seats on the board of directors, legal requirements to see certain documents, strong protection against being fired.

Lest you think this makes the country uncompetitive, Germany still makes cars, and the UK (which doesn't have this legal system) has vastly de-industrialised and doesn't make cars.

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