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WORKING DEMOCRACY
How it works Every person will have both a voice and a vote in managing their workplace, together with all other workers who work together to produce their good or service. Workers will elect their supervisors and managers, their fellow workers they recognize as the most experienced and capable in the work they do. If they fail to manage the workplace correctly, the workers who voted them in can vote them out and delegate the responsibility to someone else. Management authority will flow from the bottom up instead of from the top down. Workers in each industry — such as the different branches of manufacturing, communication, agriculture, education, transportation, distribution, and so on — will elect representatives from each industry to coordinate and manage each industry on the local, regional and national levels. They will elect their reps to a new national Congress of representatives from all industries to coordinate and manage the economy as a whole. Working Democracy combines grassroots local control at the single workplace level with representative democracy for each higher level of industrial management to ensure the entire economy runs smoothly and efficiently. Working Democracy is more efficient because workers manage their own work and can assess every day the effectiveness of the way it is done. They can make necessary changes without going through layers of bosses who may not even know or understand what the problem is. Working Democracy ensures resources are used wisely and aren’t wasted. When people are working for themselves they understand the importance of making the right choices when it comes to what to produce and how to produce it. Working Democracy directs our science and technology to producing what is most beneficial for the most people, not what is merely most profitable for a few. |