Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
by mamon on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @11:21AM
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Workers have a right to get paid for their work, but that’s pretty much it. They don’t have a right to influence company policies because they do not own it. Asking workers for their opinion is just politeness, but not something company necessarily has to do.
Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
by genericid on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @11:34AM
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By that logic, a monarch's subjects did not have a right to influence kingdom policies because they did not own it.
Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
by jlawson on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:31PM
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A monarch's subjects don't choose to become subjects and they typically can't leave. Workers can choose from many different employers, or become self employed.
Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
by genericid on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:34PM
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So you support a dictatorship as long as it permits emigration? Not that monarchies actually had anything to do with that, serfdom was abolished in most places long before them.
Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
by prolikewh0a on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:24PM
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Get rid of the workers and what do you have? A failed company. The workers are the most important part and without them the business cannot survive. The most important part of the business should have a say in the business.
Re:Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
by frockington on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @01:36PM
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You would need to replace the disgruntled opinionated workers with workers who were happy with their job. Its a tiny bit more effort but in the end the result would be the same
Inequality declines as Union membership rises[1], aka worker representation.
https://www.epi.org/news/union-membership-declines-inequalit...