I'd love to work in a cooperative. Previously, I've worked in private practice and local government and found the hierarchical structure to be soul-crushing. Such hierarchy batters creativity to death, creates hectoring managers and badgering clients. And managers use all kinds of tricks and bullying via HR, PR and consultants to paper over cracks and create a mirage of a shared vision; they hold it together just long enough to fool most employees for a few years until they get jaded by that process of fake cheerleading. I really dislike such unwarranted hierarchies. Mind you, I suspect that cooperatives could suffer from other issues. You're still going to get egos wherever you work.
Hi Robert, you are probably best contacting Leeds Bread Co-op direct? This film was made by us (Co-operatives UK) to promote a support programme for co-ops called The Hive - thehive.coop/reimagine Leeds Bread Co-op links: facebook.com/Leeds-Bread-Co-op-245404722229376/ twitter.com/leedsbreadcoop Thanks, Leila
Hi Robert. We have a flat wage structure, so everyone who works at the co-op (whether they are a member or not) is paid at the same hourly rate. Surplus/profit is currently reinvested. In our co-op, non members are not part of decision making but are routinely consulted on issues that affect them. Within the membership we take decisions using a process of consensus and our co-op is organised non-hierarchially. This means that we all have an equal voice in decision making.
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Leeds Bread Co-op Thank you for your answer. It is great to see organization like yours thriving. It strikes me though - if you need consensus to make decision then the one last person who disagree have much stronger voice than all the rest. One person can stop whole process against majority. This means that there is no real equality. It is fine if decision is all yours but what if some outside circumstances will force you to act? I suppose that then inability to decide may put whole endeavor at risk. Real equality means that everyone can be as well 'for' as 'against' with equal chance to win driven only by reason, knowledge and love. I wish you all the best.
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I'd love to work in a cooperative. Previously, I've worked in private practice and local government and found the hierarchical structure to be soul-crushing. Such hierarchy batters creativity to death, creates hectoring managers and badgering clients. And managers use all kinds of tricks and bullying via HR, PR and consultants to paper over cracks and create a mirage of a shared vision; they hold it together just long enough to fool most employees for a few years until they get jaded by that process of fake cheerleading. I really dislike such unwarranted hierarchies.
Mind you, I suspect that cooperatives could suffer from other issues. You're still going to get egos wherever you work.
Were you in a union?
How you guys share profit? Does everyone have equal voice in decisions?
Hi Robert, you are probably best contacting Leeds Bread Co-op direct? This film was made by us (Co-operatives UK) to promote a support programme for co-ops called The Hive - thehive.coop/reimagine
Leeds Bread Co-op links:
facebook.com/Leeds-Bread-Co-op-245404722229376/
twitter.com/leedsbreadcoop
Thanks, Leila
Hi Robert. We have a flat wage structure, so everyone who works at the co-op (whether they are a member or not) is paid at the same hourly rate. Surplus/profit is currently reinvested.
In our co-op, non members are not part of decision making but are routinely consulted on issues that affect them. Within the membership we take decisions using a process of consensus and our co-op is organised non-hierarchially. This means that we all have an equal voice in decision making.
Leeds Bread Co-op Thank you for your answer. It is great to see organization like yours thriving.
It strikes me though - if you need consensus to make decision then the one last person who disagree have much stronger voice than all the rest. One person can stop whole process against majority. This means that there is no real equality.
It is fine if decision is all yours but what if some outside circumstances will force you to act? I suppose that then inability to decide may put whole endeavor at risk.
Real equality means that everyone can be as well 'for' as 'against' with equal chance to win driven only by reason, knowledge and love.
I wish you all the best.