Empowering Worker Cooperatives

Many of my previous policy proposals have detailed steps which I would take toward empowering workers. Ideas such as universal healthcare go a long way in this regard. Endorsing a national union also goes a long way in empowering all Americans.

Yet none of that is enough. Allowing decisions regarding wages, employment and benefits to remain in the hands of corporations as they are currently structured still leave workers with less power than investors. Corporate executives and outside investors who hold the majority of stock detract from profits which would otherwise go into…