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Re:G.M. Strike: 50k Union Workers Walk Out Over Wages and Id... by specialist on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:31AM (#20985045)
Further, I'm keen to learn more about the German practice of having labor represented on corporate boards. They seem to have many fewer of these food fights.

Why?

What helps?

Expanding stakeholder participation, generous profit sharing, limiting CEO compensation, larger social safety net...?

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Re:G.M. Strike: 50k Union Workers Walk Out Over Wages and Id... by knightofmars on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:56AM (#20985373)
If the labor board members don't act in the best interest of labor or are generally ineffective they can be removed by labor. Also, it's unlikely you'll have a labor dispute when half the boards is made up of labor elected officials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany

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