[P2P-F] mondragon exploits workers, polish strike

[Nicholas Roberts]

http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/permaculturecooperative/blog/2009/07/17/mondragon-permaculture-cooperative/

Similarly, several of the industrial Mondragon cooperatives have in recent
years faced increased pressure from, for example, auto-part buyers (i.e. car
manufacturers) to open manufacturing plants in Third World countries, or to
lose important contracts.   We talked at length with Fred about Mondragon’s
globalisation strategy - it now has 70 odd manufacturing plants overseas -
none of which are as yet cooperatives.  This “multi-localisation” process is
covered in JM Luzarraga’s PhD defense
presentation<http://www.slideshare.net/jmluzarraga/mondragon-multilocalisation-strategy-jm-luzarraga-phd-defense-4th-june-2008-presentation>.
Briefly, the cooperatives are embedded in the global capitalist system, with
the result that appliance-making companies like Fagor have found it
impossible to compete with companies who are outsourcing.  This is not to
say that they haven’t tried to come up with ways to cooperatise their
outsourced plants, but there are many obstacles, not the least of which is
that, in some countries, it’s not merely infeasible to create a cooperative,
it’s illegal.

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> thanks for the perspective!
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> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Nicholas Roberts <
> niccolo.roberts at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> hi michel
>>
>> havent read that piece, but I would guess that yes, strike action against
>> mondragon would be justified in these globalized factories they own
>>
>> when we where in arrasate it was discussed - michel lezamiz and fred
>> freundlich - there was a cooperatization process underway in these overseas
>> acquisitions, and research was being done on the problems of mondragon as a
>> globalized neoliberal corporation... the cooperatization process had
>> problems even before the Great Recession, and I think it basically stopped
>> or went in reverse since...
>>
>> we where told many of the worker-owners "didnt join mondragon so they
>> could become capitalists" and so on... there is a PhD on the phenomena
>>
>> -N
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>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2011/01/mondragon-cooperative-built-on.html
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>>> Nicholas, Kevin, or others, a commentary for publication in the p2p blog
>>> would be appreciated,
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>>> Michel
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