#mondragon — Public Fediverse posts

@DekaBlack @loar Puff, qué difícil. Las portadas de los #vinilos #music me parecen todas preciosas.

A la que más cariño le tengo es a uno de la #Mondragon que me firmó el fotógrafo... :ablobcatnomcookie:

Hôtel de Suze à #Mondragon (#Vaucluse) Construction 1er quart XVIe siècle. Façade et toiture : inscription par arrêté du 28 octobre 1949.
Suite 👉 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00082082/mondragon-hotel-de-suze
#Patrimoine #MonumentHistorique
Photo CC-BY-SA 4.0 : Unknown early 1900s

Les cooperatives i l'Economia Social tenim un gran poder de canvi: més igualtat, més democràcia, més sostenibilitat, més justícia...

Dijous 18.30 h aquesta taula rodona a #Inca fa bona pinta. Jo hi aniré. M'acompanyes?

#Coop #Coops #Cooperativa #Cooperatives #EconomiaSocial #ESS #ASETT #Mondragon @albizuri_inigo @reasbalears @mercatsocial.bsky.social #UCTAIB

@PeachMcD

Anarchists are not attempting to get to an "ideal form of governance". There is no such thing. No one has the right to govern anybody. What we are doing is creating an ideal society, one piece at a time, from the ground up. The ideal society must, by definition, have an ideal economy. It's called #LibertarianSocialism, i.e., worker self-owned, worker self-managed workplaces, federated in whatever ways they choose.

Libertarian Socialism is already up and running and merely needs to grow. See:

#NoBAWC

#Mondragon

etc.

I myself put in 26 years at Bound Together Anarchist Bookstore Collective, a NoBAWC shop. We didn't have a boss. We didn't need one. We held a meeting once a month to do what a boss would do in a normal shop, i.e., manage the business. It worked fine.

The coop principle is scalable. It ranges from ad hoc neighborhood food purchasing coops to Mondragon, a multi-national, multi billion dollar enterprise.

Decisions should be made by the people they effect. Everybody else should butt out.

We apply the basic principles of anarchism to everything we do, starting with, but in no way limited to, work:

Sharing
Cooperation
Solidarity
Mutual Aid
Direct Action

*****
Here's a true story about one such coop. Perhaps it may inspire you:

In about '73-4 some people in New Haven, Connecticut started a food coop. My communal household was the 12th household to join. One night a week, at three in the morning, one of the households would go to the loading dock and buy wholesale produce when it came in, fresh off the trucks, then take it back to the house and divide it up. We rotated this task. More and more households joined.

Pretty soon we were moving enough food that the living room floors of communal households weren't a big enough sorting space. There were about 1500 of us. We chipped in and rented an unused bodega on the Hill (a ghetto neighborhood), not to do retail, but just to have enough floor and shelf space to sort the food. We also were able to store non perishables there so we could buy that stuff in bigger lots.

We immediately ran into another food coop operating in the neighborhood. It was all Black and based on the basement floors of a network of Black churches, instead of a network of living room floors like we were doing. Other than that, we operated exactly the same. There were about 1500 of them, too. We held one joint meeting and voted unanimously to fuse. Now there was 3,000 of us.

So we rented out this old abandoned supermarket. It might have once been a Kroger. I forget. One of those chains. We cleared one space out for childcare and another for socializing. The rest of the layout stayed the same. It had everything available that a grocery store had. Everything but the meat sold at 2% over cost, which covered the building's overhead. The meat was prorated according to cut because that was the only to make the money work.

The coop was staffed by volunteers, except we also hired a butcher and two part time drivers with the money we saved not having a boss. Then we acquired a grant writer who worked for commission. We spent the grant money on infrastructure. Membership was by household, not individuals. Tight scheduling made sure there was always enough staff on hand. It was never a problem.

The food was excellent. The people were the best ever. It became a sort of community hang out in addition to being the community pantry.

Sometimes political groups held meetings in the socializing area. It was sweet.

Then I moved to California and lost track of the place. Long story, for some other time.

@PeachMcD

Anarchists are not attempting to get to an "ideal form of governance". There is no such thing. No one has the right to govern anybody. What we are doing is creating an ideal society, one piece at a time, from the ground up. The ideal society must, by definition, have an ideal economy. It's called #LibertarianSocialism, i.e., worker self-owned, worker self-managed workplaces, federated in whatever ways they choose.

Libertarian Socialism is already up and running and merely needs to grow. See:

#NoBAWC

#Mondragon

etc.

I myself put in 26 years at Bound Together Anarchist Bookstore Collective, a NoBAWC shop. We didn't have a boss. We didn't need one. We held a meeting once a month to do what a boss would do in a normal shop, i.e., manage the business. It worked fine.

The coop principle is scalable. It ranges from ad hoc neighborhood food purchasing coops to Mondragon, a multi-national, multi billion dollar enterprise.

Decisions should be made by the people they effect. Everybody else should butt out.

We apply the basic principles of anarchism to everything we do, starting with, but in no way limited to, work:

Sharing
Cooperation
Solidarity
Mutual Aid
Direct Action

*****
Here's a true story about one such coop. Perhaps it may inspire you:

In about '73-4 some people in New Haven, Connecticut started a food coop. My communal household was the 12th household to join. One night a week, at three in the morning, one of the households would go to the loading dock and buy wholesale produce when it came in, fresh off the trucks, then take it back to the house and divide it up. We rotated this task. More and more households joined.

Pretty soon we were moving enough food that the living room floors of communal households weren't a big enough sorting space. There were about 1500 of us. We chipped in and rented an unused bodega on the Hill (a ghetto neighborhood), not to do retail, but just to have enough floor and shelf space to sort the food. We also were able to store non perishables there so we could buy that stuff in bigger lots.

We immediately ran into another food coop operating in the neighborhood. It was all Black and based on the basement floors of a network of Black churches, instead of a network of living room floors like we were doing. Other than that, we operated exactly the same. There were about 1500 of them, too. We held one joint meeting and voted unanimously to fuse. Now there was 3,000 of us.

So we rented out this old abandoned supermarket. It might have once been a Kroger. I forget. One of those chains. We cleared one space out for childcare and another for socializing. The rest of the layout stayed the same. It had everything available that a grocery store had. Everything but the meat sold at 2% over cost, which covered the building's overhead. The meat was prorated according to cut because that was the only to make the money work.

The coop was staffed by volunteers, except we also hired a butcher and two part time drivers with the money we saved not having a boss. Then we acquired a grant writer who worked for commission. We spent the grant money on infrastructure. Membership was by household, not individuals. Tight scheduling made sure there was always enough staff on hand. It was never a problem.

The food was excellent. The people were the best ever. It became a sort of community hang out in addition to being the community pantry.

Sometimes political groups held meetings in the socializing area. It was sweet.

Then I moved to California and lost track of the place. Long story, for some other time.

@PeachMcD

Anarchists are not attempting to get to an "ideal form of governance". There is no such thing. No one has the right to govern anybody. What we are doing is creating an ideal society, one piece at a time, from the ground up. The ideal society must, by definition, have an ideal economy. It's called #LibertarianSocialism, i.e., worker self-owned, worker self-managed workplaces, federated in whatever ways they choose.

Libertarian Socialism is already up and running and merely needs to grow. See:

#NoBAWC

#Mondragon

etc.

I myself put in 26 years at Bound Together Anarchist Bookstore Collective, a NoBAWC shop. We didn't have a boss. We didn't need one. We held a meeting once a month to do what a boss would do in a normal shop, i.e., manage the business. It worked fine.

The coop principle is scalable. It ranges from ad hoc neighborhood food purchasing coops to Mondragon, a multi-national, multi billion dollar enterprise.

Decisions should be made by the people they effect. Everybody else should butt out.

We apply the basic principles of anarchism to everything we do, starting with, but in no way limited to, work:

Sharing
Cooperation
Solidarity
Mutual Aid
Direct Action

*****
Here's a true story about one such coop. Perhaps it may inspire you:

In about '73-4 some people in New Haven, Connecticut started a food coop. My communal household was the 12th household to join. One night a week, at three in the morning, one of the households would go to the loading dock and buy wholesale produce when it came in, fresh off the trucks, then take it back to the house and divide it up. We rotated this task. More and more households joined.

Pretty soon we were moving enough food that the living room floors of communal households weren't a big enough sorting space. There were about 1500 of us. We chipped in and rented an unused bodega on the Hill (a ghetto neighborhood), not to do retail, but just to have enough floor and shelf space to sort the food. We also were able to store non perishables there so we could buy that stuff in bigger lots.

We immediately ran into another food coop operating in the neighborhood. It was all Black and based on the basement floors of a network of Black churches, instead of a network of living room floors like we were doing. Other than that, we operated exactly the same. There were about 1500 of them, too. We held one joint meeting and voted unanimously to fuse. Now there was 3,000 of us.

So we rented out this old abandoned supermarket. It might have once been a Kroger. I forget. One of those chains. We cleared one space out for childcare and another for socializing. The rest of the layout stayed the same. It had everything available that a grocery store had. Everything but the meat sold at 2% over cost, which covered the building's overhead. The meat was prorated according to cut because that was the only to make the money work.

The coop was staffed by volunteers, except we also hired a butcher and two part time drivers with the money we saved not having a boss. Then we acquired a grant writer who worked for commission. We spent the grant money on infrastructure. Membership was by household, not individuals. Tight scheduling made sure there was always enough staff on hand. It was never a problem.

The food was excellent. The people were the best ever. It became a sort of community hang out in addition to being the community pantry.

Sometimes political groups held meetings in the socializing area. It was sweet.

Then I moved to California and lost track of the place. Long story, for some other time.

@PeachMcD

Anarchists are not attempting to get to an "ideal form of governance". There is no such thing. No one has the right to govern anybody. What we are doing is creating an ideal society, one piece at a time, from the ground up. The ideal society must, by definition, have an ideal economy. It's called #LibertarianSocialism, i.e., worker self-owned, worker self-managed workplaces, federated in whatever ways they choose.

Libertarian Socialism is already up and running and merely needs to grow. See:

#NoBAWC

#Mondragon

etc.

I myself put in 26 years at Bound Together Anarchist Bookstore Collective, a NoBAWC shop. We didn't have a boss. We didn't need one. We held a meeting once a month to do what a boss would do in a normal shop, i.e., manage the business. It worked fine.

The coop principle is scalable. It ranges from ad hoc neighborhood food purchasing coops to Mondragon, a multi-national, multi billion dollar enterprise.

Decisions should be made by the people they effect. Everybody else should butt out.

We apply the basic principles of anarchism to everything we do, starting with, but in no way limited to, work:

Sharing
Cooperation
Solidarity
Mutual Aid
Direct Action

*****
Here's a true story about one such coop. Perhaps it may inspire you:

In about '73-4 some people in New Haven, Connecticut started a food coop. My communal household was the 12th household to join. One night a week, at three in the morning, one of the households would go to the loading dock and buy wholesale produce when it came in, fresh off the trucks, then take it back to the house and divide it up. We rotated this task. More and more households joined.

Pretty soon we were moving enough food that the living room floors of communal households weren't a big enough sorting space. There were about 1500 of us. We chipped in and rented an unused bodega on the Hill (a ghetto neighborhood), not to do retail, but just to have enough floor and shelf space to sort the food. We also were able to store non perishables there so we could buy that stuff in bigger lots.

We immediately ran into another food coop operating in the neighborhood. It was all Black and based on the basement floors of a network of Black churches, instead of a network of living room floors like we were doing. Other than that, we operated exactly the same. There were about 1500 of them, too. We held one joint meeting and voted unanimously to fuse. Now there was 3,000 of us.

So we rented out this old abandoned supermarket. It might have once been a Kroger. I forget. One of those chains. We cleared one space out for childcare and another for socializing. The rest of the layout stayed the same. It had everything available that a grocery store had. Everything but the meat sold at 2% over cost, which covered the building's overhead. The meat was prorated according to cut because that was the only to make the money work.

The coop was staffed by volunteers, except we also hired a butcher and two part time drivers with the money we saved not having a boss. Then we acquired a grant writer who worked for commission. We spent the grant money on infrastructure. Membership was by household, not individuals. Tight scheduling made sure there was always enough staff on hand. It was never a problem.

The food was excellent. The people were the best ever. It became a sort of community hang out in addition to being the community pantry.

Sometimes political groups held meetings in the socializing area. It was sweet.

Then I moved to California and lost track of the place. Long story, for some other time.

Diferències salarials a l'empresa:

IBEX35: 1 a 150
Cooperativa #Mondragon: 1 a 6
Cooperativa #Suma (UK): 1 a 1

Totes són empreses amb milers de treballadors. Amb quin model te quedes?

#Coop #Cooperativa #Cooperatives #ESS @coopnews #Empresa #Salari
https://www.thenews.coop/co-operative-approaches-to-pay/

Diferències salarials a l'empresa:

IBEX35: 1 a 150
Cooperativa #Mondragon: 1 a 6
Cooperativa #Suma (UK): 1 a 1

Totes són empreses amb milers de treballadors. Amb quin model te quedes?

#Coop #Cooperativa #Cooperatives #ESS @coopnews #Empresa #Salari
https://www.thenews.coop/co-operative-approaches-to-pay/

📖 3 years ago, amid pandemic, I co-authored an article on #DataCooperatives

(i) @PublicSeminar
https://publicseminar.org/essays/data-cooperatives-for-pandemic-times/

(ii) @esTUlankide official mean of #Mondragon @enMONDRAGON
https://www.tulankide.com/eu/datu-kooperatibak-pandemia-sasoian

#Cooperatives #ADI #DataCenter #BasqueCountry #DataSustainability #Dataopolies

📖 3 years ago, amid pandemic, I co-authored an article on #DataCooperatives

(i) @PublicSeminar
https://publicseminar.org/essays/data-cooperatives-for-pandemic-times/

(ii) @esTUlankide official mean of #Mondragon @enMONDRAGON
https://www.tulankide.com/eu/datu-kooperatibak-pandemia-sasoian

#Cooperatives #ADI #DataCenter #BasqueCountry #DataSustainability #Dataopolies

📖 3 years ago, amid pandemic, I co-authored an article on #DataCooperatives

(i) @PublicSeminar
https://publicseminar.org/essays/data-cooperatives-for-pandemic-times/

(ii) @esTUlankide official mean of #Mondragon @enMONDRAGON
https://www.tulankide.com/eu/datu-kooperatibak-pandemia-sasoian

#Cooperatives #ADI #DataCenter #BasqueCountry #DataSustainability #Dataopolies

📖 3 years ago, amid pandemic, I co-authored an article on #DataCooperatives

(i) @PublicSeminar
https://publicseminar.org/essays/data-cooperatives-for-pandemic-times/

(ii) @esTUlankide official mean of #Mondragon @enMONDRAGON
https://www.tulankide.com/eu/datu-kooperatibak-pandemia-sasoian

#Cooperatives #ADI #DataCenter #BasqueCountry #DataSustainability #Dataopolies

📖 3 years ago, amid pandemic, I co-authored an article on #DataCooperatives

(i) @PublicSeminar
https://publicseminar.org/essays/data-cooperatives-for-pandemic-times/

(ii) @esTUlankide official mean of #Mondragon @enMONDRAGON
https://www.tulankide.com/eu/datu-kooperatibak-pandemia-sasoian

#Cooperatives #ADI #DataCenter #BasqueCountry #DataSustainability #Dataopolies

🌍#ADI #DataCenter #BasqueCountry is building its 'sovereign' #DataCentre in #Mondragon.

This #multistakeholder initiative led by
@enMONDRAGON
supports #DataSovereignty #TrustworthyAI #DigitalTransformation via #AI #IoT #CloudComputing #DigitalTransition

https://www.tulankide.com/eu/adi-data-center-euskadi-bigarren-zentroa-eraikitzeko-prest

Construint infraestructures de dades #Km0.

La cooperativa de segon grau #Mondragon participarà en aquest nou projecte a #Euskadi.

Una iniciativa a replicar a #Mallorca?

#Dades #Data #DataCenter #Coop #Cooperatives #Cooperativa #Cloud #Núvol
https://www.tulankide.com/es/adi-data-center-euskadi-arranca-con-la-construccion-de-su-segundo-centro

In #Warsaw now, last week #Budapest, reflecting on contrasts:

While #DataCooperatives spark interest in the #US (citizen-driven sovereignty), in #postcommunist Eastern #EU, they [ #cooperatives ] still evoke state-owned associations, needing clarity

From my decade in #Mondragon exploring promise of #Cooperatives for #Web3 + #AI

👉#OpenAccess: https://mdpi.com/2624-6511/4/3/62

#DataSovereignty #EmergingTech #AI4SI

Grateful for being kindly invited to contribute to an interesting event in #WashingtonDC about #DataCooperatives, a research topic that keeps my mind busy, having worked in #Mondragon #cooperative group for a decade while connecting+ #EmergingTech ongoing #Web3 trends

https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/4/3/62

A #Euskadi, hi ha comarques on més del 10% dels treballadors estan a una #cooperativa.

A #Debagoiena, seu de #Mondragón, arriba a 1 de cada 2 treballadors.

Comparant aquestes dades amb l'índex de #Gini, m'atrevesc a dir que la desigualtat seria molt menor allà on hi ha més #feina en #cooperatives.

El #cooperativisme és una eina molt potent de les polítiques d'igualtat.

Per què hi ha polítics que parlen d'igualtat però no fomenten les cooperatives?

ℹ️ https://oves-geeb.eus/es/sabias-que-6/

#OVES #Coop

Les empreses #cooperatives assumeixen un compromís diferent a les societats de capital convencionals: generar una #ocupació de qualitat.

Per exemple, al Grup #Mondragon d'#Euskadi fabriquen components per a avions, entre moltes altres coses poc conegudes per al gran públic. O Àuria Perfums, un altre exemple similar a #Catalunya.

Però la seva raó de ser no és obtenir majors beneficis, sinó crear #treball estable, de qualitat i cooperatiu.

#ViaEmpresa #Coop #Cooperativa
https://www.viaempresa.cat/empresa/perfum-cooperatiu_2200757_102.html

💚 #Intercooperació

Nou #cooperatives participen en la reforma integral d'un hotel a #Mondragón.

#Krean dirección de obra
#Onnera Group: los equipamientos de restauración
#Gerodan ha equipado las habitaciones
#LABORALKutxa la financiación
#Enea ha equipado con sus muebles los espacios
#Erreka los automatismos
#Ondoan ha ejecutado la reforma y mantendrá el edificio
#Fagor Electrónica la recepción de TV y multimedia, y
#Ausolan colaborará con el restaurante.

#Cooperativa
https://www.tulankide.com/es/mondragon-hospitality-y-mondragon-hotela-firman-un-acuerdo-de-colaboracion

🚴‍♂️ L'equip ciclista de la #cooperativa de crèdit Laboral Kutxa serà al #TourDeFrance.

#Coop #Ciclisme #LeTour #Mondragon #LaboralKutxa #Bici #Bicicleta
https://www.tulankide.com/es/el-laboral-kutxa-estara-en-el-tour-de-francia-femenino

(Sitting at the auto shop waiting on a tire with a slow leak.) Friends, how about from now on whenever we mention the 7 ICA Cooperative Principles we always point out that there are various versions (#Mondragon, #DisCO, #CooperationJackson) and even cooperatives like #CECOCESOLA that eschew lists in favor of constant dialogue among members...
#cooperativism

Pics from a 2016? visit to the #Orbea worker cooperative* in #Euskal Herria, part of the #Mondragon Corporation.

(Just final assembly, the manufacture was mostly in China and non-cooperative when I visited; assume that has not changed.)

Pics from a 2016? visit to the #Orbea worker cooperative* in #Euskal Herria, part of the #Mondragon Corporation.

(Just final assembly, the manufacture was mostly in China and non-cooperative when I visited; assume that has not changed.)

Pics from a 2016? visit to the #Orbea worker cooperative* in #Euskal Herria, part of the #Mondragon Corporation.

(Just final assembly, the manufacture was mostly in China and non-cooperative when I visited; assume that has not changed.)

Ja ha sortit una nova edició del World #Cooperative Monitor on és recullen les 300 cooperatives i mútues més grosses del món.

Novament, la #cooperativa de 2n grau #Mondragon encapçala la classificació de les #cooperatives industrials donant feina a 80.000 persones.

Al top 10 de les #Utilities, n'hi ha 5 energètiques: 4 a Estats Units i 1 a Suïssa: Primeo Energie que va néixer fa 125 anys i compta amb 56.000 membres.

Més info: https://monitor.coop/

#Coop #ICA #Mútua #Empresa #Economia

10 years go, or so, we brought undergrads from #mondragón University's #LEINN program to Tokyo for a series of events and conversations on cooperative entrepreneurship and team learning. This is a meeting at #ImpactHub, down by the Meguro river.

10 years go, or so, we brought undergrads from #mondragón University's #LEINN program to Tokyo for a series of events and conversations on cooperative entrepreneurship and team learning. This is a meeting at #ImpactHub, down by the Meguro river.

10 years go, or so, we brought undergrads from #mondragón University's #LEINN program to Tokyo for a series of events and conversations on cooperative entrepreneurship and team learning. This is a meeting at #ImpactHub, down by the Meguro river.

Mondragon - proof of concept - not because they did it perfectly or bc they're flawless - they made it work - they're competitive and most of all: it scales beautifully.

https://medium.com/fifty-by-fifty/mondragon-through-a-critical-lens-b29de8c6049

They're still flawed humans, like the rest of us.
... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But there is a huge potential, esp. for change in the right direction and a peaceful transition into a different socio-economic society.

#politics #cooperative #societalChange #democracy #oneWorldProblems #socioEconomics #Mondragon

Delivering #Fulbright #Lectureship in

#Entrepreneurship #SmallBusinessManagement on #DataDrivenEconomies #UnderestimatedCities #TechEntrepreneurs revolving around #Blockchain #Bitcoin #Mastodon #TwitterMigration #Ethereum #DataCooperatives #SmartCities with active discussion with #students

by connecting #California with #BasqueCountry #Mondragon and #Wales #CardiffUniversity #partnerships

"Platform cooperatives are a tool for creating quality jobs on a large scale and they are already a reality! At a time when the concentration of big tech companies is through the roof, this course is not limited to generating an analysis and vigilance of capitalism. It prepares people for success as platform entrepreneurs in the exponentially growing ecosystem that is the gig economy."

https://www.mondragon.edu/en/-/segunda-edicion-programa-cooperativas-plataforma-

#PlatformCooperatives #webinar #Mondragon #NewSchool

Thanks to @LeoSammallahti for this. It looks like a must-read for people interested in the bankruptcy of Fagor Electrodomesticos. I glanced at the conclusions, which strike me as a version of the "blame the workers" argument that some at Mondragon have made. BUT eager to have my prejudices challenged...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339030421_Corporate_governance_as_a_key_aspect_in_the_failure_of_worker_cooperatives

#Fagor
#Mondragon
#MultinationalCoopitalism

Another must-listen. A critical take on #cooperativism, #solidarityeconomy, and #socialtransformation, in #Mondragon and #Mississippi and beyond. Really well done.

https://www.shareable.net/blog/podcast-the-case-for-worker-cooperatives-and-economic-democracy-part-II

Very interesting article on Mondragon's international subsidiaries by Anjel Errasti:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324389705_COOPERATIVES_AT_THE_THRESHOLD_OF_A_NEW_ERA_THE_MULTINATIONAL_TRANSFORMATION_OF_MONDRAGON
#mondragon #coopitalism #multinationals #fagorederlan