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mr_toad on Sept 19, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the ...

If they could afford that they wouldn’t need jobs. They’d need to hire a bunch of new workers.

It would be interesting to see what happened when the shoe was on the other foot.

mullingitover on Sept 19, 2023 [–]

I'm surprised, I did a little digging and there are actually quite a few companies that are at least 50% employee owned[1]. The biggest company in the list is Publix Supermarkets, but there are also quite a few manufacturing and engineering firms.

[1] https://www.nceo.org/articles/employee-ownership-100

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