Argentine Journalist Sergio Ciancaglini on “Sin Patron: Stories from Argentina’s Worker-Run Factorie

[CHIMO]

AVI LEWIS: Zanon Ceramics. After two years under worker control, it’s the granddaddy of this new movement. Today, the factory is in production with 300 workers. Decisions are made in assemblies: one worker, one vote. Everyone gets exactly the same salary.


NAOMI KLEIN: It wasn’t always like this. A couple of years ago, the owner claimed that the plant was no longer profitable, that it had to be shut down. The workers refused to accept that fate. They argued that the company owed so much to the community in debts and public subsidies that it now belonged to everyone. In the Menem years, the Zanon factory had received millions in corporate welfare, and the owners still ran up huge debts. Now that his workers have restarted the machines, he’s back.


Are you going to get your factory back?


LUIS ZANON: I’m going to get it back.

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http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/15/argentine_journalist_sergio_ciancaglini_on_sin
Which side are you on, which side are you on.....

[billyoc]

1. There are over 200 of these worker reclaimed factories in Argentina alone.

Working factories without owners or bosses, what's not to love?

[aquart]

2. I once had a 78 of that song.

By the Camp Unity Freedom Theater Players.