POLAND: The fight for workers' demonracy
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to be sold or distributed to its workers, with no one outside the enterprise entitled to buy shares, and (4) Workers having the right to buy shares in any enterprise.
He personally favored the third option. He said there was no answer yet to the question of what happens to workers' shares if they quit or get fired. His personal opinion was that workers must sell stock to other workers in the enterprise when they leave their jobs.
He explained that he didn't like the second and fourth options because the nomenklatura [the bureaucracy] would end up being the major shareholders and the real owners of the enterprises. "They have the money," he declared, "we don't."
We asked him why he was opposed to the first option (self management)?
"We tried it in 1981," he said, "when it was first proposed." The Workers' Councils democratically appointed and controlled managers, he said-and he thought it worked well. But now "it's not a deep enough change." The worker-stock plan, he believed, would introduce "the missing incentive to work hard" and bring foreign capital necessary for modernization. Moreover, he bewith en Introduction and article by Carl Finamore meaning of the current events in Poland.
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