Re:Worker-owned businesses: 'We get paid the same regardless...
by dragonwriter on Sunday March 11, 2018 @05:37PM
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> Good luck retaining any skilled professionals then.
It's a good wholesaler where employees “multiskill” so that roles re flexible; virtually all skilled professionals are probably outsourced (which isn't uncommon in firms where professional services aren't the core business, even if they aren't coops.)
Equal pay isn't a universal (or even dominant) norm for worker coops, though they do tend to have flatter pay structures than traditional firms.
> One of the most repulsing stories that I got from Soviet Union from my grandparents was about excellent engineers being on the same pay scale with manual labour workers.
Which would be germane if we were talking about either the Soviet Union or a system with that feature, which we are not.
It's a good wholesaler where employees “multiskill” so that roles re flexible; virtually all skilled professionals are probably outsourced (which isn't uncommon in firms where professional services aren't the core business, even if they aren't coops.)
Equal pay isn't a universal (or even dominant) norm for worker coops, though they do tend to have flatter pay structures than traditional firms.
> One of the most repulsing stories that I got from Soviet Union from my grandparents was about excellent engineers being on the same pay scale with manual labour workers.
Which would be germane if we were talking about either the Soviet Union or a system with that feature, which we are not.