In 1951, Konrad Adenauer made a bill in Germany, which his organization provided respective years of unchangeable majority (and the current political power of Angela Merkel might owe it something). The fact that the Polish political strategy is overturned to the law is best demonstrated by the fact that in Poland specified a thing can be proposed at the top of the niche blog of a left-wing journalist.
Although, incidentally, for the Platform, proposing a akin solution would be an chance to escape ahead of the fall elections. She could regain her strategical initiative after losing negotiations with miners, solve the problem of upcoming confrontation with unions and ridicule the opposition.
The bill was titled with the characteristic Teutonic lightness of the pen: ‘Gesetz über die Mitbestimung der Arbeitnehmer in den Aufsichtsräten und Vorständen der Unternehmen des Bergbaus und der Eisen und Stahl ereugenden Industrie’. For friends – Montanmitbestimmunggesetz, that is, the Act on Co-management in dense Industry.
According to it, a parity between capital representatives and worker representatives was introduced in the supervisory boards of companies in dense industry. They besides have an influence on the cast of at least 1 board of directors (the alleged Arbeitsdirector).
Later, "mitbestimmung" was expanded to include another industries and another forms of worker participation (to-day this applies to all companies employing more than 500 employees). If our capitalism looks so radically different from German, it is besides due to the fact that there was a extremist elimination from the workplace 64 years ago of "a farm management model", which is inactive the basis of the Republic of Poland.
I do not know if you have reached the radicality of the 1951 German reform. Staff on the board of supervisors! Their typical on the board of directors! The tempor, the mores, the shit, what organization was this Adenauer, from the Trotsky-Maoist Front of any Scary Left?
Christlich Democratische Union, meine Damen und Herren. This is why the SPD has been incapable to formulate an attractive electoral counter-offer for a very long time and is incapable to do so today. If the working class associate the top prey of the century with chadeks, who needs social democrats?
In Poland, specified a solution seems to be something from a distant exotic land – although 2 not besides wide rivers separate us from the country in which it works.
In our case, a neoliberal publicist would most likely say that if employees were allowed to co-manage the plant, they would steal, drink and ruin. But it doesn't truly gotta say it due to the fact that it's a subject that nobody talks about at all, the right or the left.
There is no request to ask Mr Leszek, Mrs Madzi or Mr Rysia (not to mention Mr Januszek). There is besides no mention of this subject among participants of the seminar on the importance of Fallus in Lacan's "Ecrits" – in the Guide to Political Criticism "Participation" the co-management was devoted to 1 tiny division (the feathers of Jarosław Urbański).
In order to be funny, there was much talk about affirmative German experiences during the first period of “Solidarity” due to the fact that it matched the imagination of “the local government”. After 1989, Jacek Kuron was a lone promoter of specified solutions.
On his initiative, a "Company Act" was carried out, which theoretically changed workers. However, it practically served primarily to facilitate privatisation, which almost always ended with incapacitation of workers.
In proposing specified a solution, the Platform could escape the collision with unionists. alternatively of bumping in, add gas, like a fancy BMW. due to the fact that it is not that in Germany relationships are weak: on the contrary!
But the unions, whose representatives participate in co-management of the company and apply for the votes of all employees (including non-attached ones) in the establishment, simply act differently. Looking at Germany, I'd say, for the benefit of all.
In Poland we built ourselves a model of confrontational capitalism. Corporate board doesn't care about their employees, employees don't care about the CEO's Lamborghini. Everyone has as much as he pulls for himself, no 1 thinks in the far-reaching interests of the company.
It's different. Moreover, by changing this state of affairs, the Platform could knock out the PiS and the SLD just as Adenauer knocked out the SPD. Of course, I know no one's gonna knock anybody out, but on a niche blog, I think I'm allowed to.
