Worker cooperatives are excellent examples of the power of workers themselves to direct an economy.
They are models of the control of workers over their own livelihoods and conditions. There are no bosses in a cooperative, at least not institutionalized ones. The traditional conflict between bosses and workers is not evident within cooperatives, and so the role of a traditional unionto help the workers fight the bosses for better wages and conditions does not make sense within the setting of a cooperative. Well, there are a couple of reasons. If our goal is worker control in every workplace, we have a long way to go, and we must be organized to get there.