Employee Ownership advocate says worker control can help save car industry

06 November 2013

Employee Onwership advocate Gary Scarrabelotti has written a piece on the ability of employee ownership to help local car manufacturing.

“Few, if any, are those who know how to save the Australian car industry. But, if there is a solution, part of it has to be that the employees take charge.

More importantly, car industry workers need to take personal responsibility — as opposed to a collectivized disconnect from responsibility — for shop floor efficiency and productivity and for the cost to the business of their wages, conditions, and staffing levels.”

Read the full post on his blog, Workers empowered on the springs of hope.

Gary Scarrabelotti is Group Secretary of the Employee Ownership Group, a network of corporate advocate for employee ownership, and Director of Equityplan, expert advisors on employee share plans and their implementation.

Car-manufacturing

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