The vision behind the agreement is job creation, but with a new twist. Since government efforts were being stifled by the greed of financial speculators and private capital was more interested in cheap labor abroad, unions will take matters into their own hands, find willing partners, and create jobs themselves, but in sustainable businesses owned by the workers.

Que no se diga que no hay opciones para crear empleos, desde abajo.

‘One Worker, One Vote:’ US Steelworkers to Experiment
with Factory Ownership, Mondragon Style
By Carl Davidson
SolidarityEconomy.net
Oct. 27, 2009
http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/

The United Steel Workers Union, North America’s largest industrial trade union, announced a new collaboration with the world’s largest worker-owned cooperative, Mondragon International, based in the Basque region of Spain.

News of the announcement spread rapidly throughout the communities of global justice activists, trade union militants, economic democracy and socialist organizers, green entrepreneurs and cooperative practitioners of all sorts. More than a few raised an eyebrow, but the overwhelming response was, “Terrific! How can we help?” [Read more…]