The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur Urged His Staff Not To Unionize. The Democratic congressional candidate threw papers onto the floor and scolded an employee during the meeting. Apparently workers getting a fair share means his company will fail.

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[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (4 children)

SOLUTION : Make it a workers cooperative - a worker directed enterprise - then EVERYONE would have a stake in the success of the company and collectively they could manage it better than one person with only profits in mind.

[–]Chipit[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

But then Cenk will lose his ownership of his own business.

Remember the rule: whenever socialists talk about sharing, they are never talking about themselves.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A worker coop can take on lots of forms.

Cenk could retain 51% of the ownership, or profits, or have veto power over decisions, or whatever. All of the details would naturally have to be ironed out.

Also it'd be foolish to think they workers wouldn't have to put something in and/or be backed by the banks and/or invest somehow. Cenk wouldn't lose out.

When I talk about building up my coop project I am talking about myself and those who will join us.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Hah, that's an even better way of making people take their own poison pill. There are some good reasons (and plenty bad) most people never rise above being a cog in the machine.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wouldn't be sad if Cenk got poisoned, but he's too much of a limited hangout to be tossed away by the establishment. He's already proving he's a hypocrite by pooping on the union.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Do shills have a union?

I support shill unionization.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Their unions are secret societies.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not the shills. They're the part-time fodder.

The secret societys have their own low level stooges.

[–]snakerogers 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

employees of his have since said that they're working this out and he's being more reasonable. sounds like it was a knee jerk reaction to some news and he handled it super poorly. obviously he handled it wrong but from what TYT employees have publicly said, everything is going smoother now and Cenk is being apologetic and supportive. some of these news headlines are blowing it out of proportion on purpose.

[–]Chipit[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Or it could be he's a gigantic hypocrite who advocates unions for everyone else except him.