Employees Overthrow “Capitalist” Bosses in Co-op Revolution at The Canary
¡Viva la Revolución! Away from the noise of Tory Convention, comrades over on the far-left The Canary have staged a coup in opposition to their evil capitalist overlords and put in a “worker-owned cooperative“. All earlier shareholders of Canary Media Restricted have been given the boot, and the brand new Canary Employees Co-op is now calling the pictures:
This week, we’re relaunching the Canary as a worker-owned cooperative. Because of this all choices shall be made by the employees any more. There shall be no bosses, and everybody will receives a commission the identical for a day’s work. We purpose to be an instance of radical democracy in motion. The Canary has adopted a ‘sociocracy’ construction. It ought to have been like this from the start […] It’s stunning {that a} media organisation set as much as do “brave”, “campaigning journalism” on the facet of the oppressed was arrange with a inflexible hierarchy and inequality in pay and situations between the employees and the bosses.”
Now the 15 workers working the present say they’re going through “tens of 1000’s of kilos in unpaid VAT” and Nationwide Insurance coverage contributions left behind by the “chaotic and collapsing” earlier management. They’re now promising a “horizontal construction” the place everybody receives the identical £12-per hour wage. The revolution shall be publicised…
