April 18, 2005

Stakeholders in Unions

Russ Nelson argues briefly and amusingly that if business corporations are to give "stakeholders" decision-making authority, then union corporations should give non-union "stakeholders" the same form of authority over their activities:

Thus, I claim that I am a stakeholder of the Communications Workers of America (just to pick on one of them), and the next time they vote on a union contract, I get to vote on it too.

How about it UFCW, would you like the entire population of cities to vote on whether or not Wal-Mart should be unionized, or whether a union should be disbanded entirely? Would that not be more "democratic"?

Posted by Kevin on April, 18 2005 at 01:31 PM