Strategic Unions

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1.4 Mission Statement The mission of the company is the well-being of all people. To accomplish this goal we will operate business ventures designed to generate income through which we can secure our own well-being and consequently become empowered to help others.

Today we are witnessing the spectacular failure of Capitalism to provide for the needs of this planet and the people on it. In previous eras of class instability, the focus was often on the bifurcation between those who wish to dominate, and those who wish for a world without domination. While the ideals of a world free of domination are admirable, its proponents face the cold reality that those who specialize in domination are able to accumulate more power than those who do not seek it.

This need to dominate is typically associated with hierarchical organizations, and for good reason as they are the mechanism that allows individuals to accumulate unconstrained executive power. However, rather than trying to dismantle hierarchical systems, our collective recognizes them as an essential tool for problem-solving and productivity. We intend to capture and incorporate hierarchical management into large, democratically owned and managed cooperatives called “Strategic Unions”. This will enable organizations with similar power compared to today’s capitalist corporations, but with social equity and Article 1.4 as their most fundamental goals.

The plan is to deploy open-source Enterprise Resource Planning software to coordinate the efforts and voting that will take place in the co-op. You then recruit like-minded workers from your area to join your server and begin organizing and holding elections. At this point, workers in your cooperative will put forward business plans and become candidates for CEO. The members vote based on the candidate and the business plan, and the person who wins is not a dictator. They are a mandated agent of the co-op, and they are removable by vote. Their job is to coordinate the business project according to their plan in order to generate revenue.

After elections, you incorporate as a Strategic Union, which means filing Articles of Incorporation as a C-corporation in your state. You will then have bargaining power in your area based on the size and specialization of your workforce. You can use the Master Staffing Agreement template to negotiate labor contracts with local businesses. Your co-op members are hired out full time, so the member-worker gets a paycheck in a similar arrangement to a staffing or temp agency. The co-op gets paid by the hour and the amount left over after paying the worker (the margin) funds the CEO’s business plan. This allows for funding without capitalist investors. It’s a “bootstrapping” process, meaning the first business plan is self-starting. Once the staffing contracts are no longer needed, they are dropped.

Following this plan, you don’t have to work at the same business to organize a union. You set up your server and organize with whomever you like.

We are asking you to take on Article 1.4 as your personal mission and join our efforts. Or, we could ride the crapitalism train to wherever it may be headed. Your choice my friends.

Apoidea Group

https://codeberg.org/Brachylophus/Apoidea (ERP Software, help wanted)

https://codeberg.org/Brachylophus/Apoidea/src/branch/main/PHILOSOPHY.md (manifesto)

https://codeberg.org/Brachylophus/Apoidea/src/branch/main/INCORPORATION.md (Articles of Incorporation template)

https://codeberg.org/Brachylophus/Apoidea/src/branch/main/STAFFING.md (Master Staffing Agreement template)

https://matrix.to/#%2F%21dVwyUzAwiuIflwnpEF%3Amatrix.org%3Fvia=matrix.org (Chat rooms)

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There is a secret reason I created Apoidea (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Juniperus@infosec.pub to c/strategic_unions@infosec.pub

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I need to let go of the fear of my secret. I went in the river in Bridgewater to chase away a demon. Unfortunately the river was partially frozen, and it was the middle of the night, and it was very cold. I tried to prepare myself and screamed, "I'm not ready!" and then dove in after it. It fled across the river, and I looked to where it went and realized there was no demon at all. Just a marsh and a forest of darkness in the distance. So I turned around and swam back to shore.

But I swam against the current and ended up further along the bank. There was 10 or 15 feet of partially frozen water there. Maybe an inch thick. If I tried to go over it I would have gotten cut up and I might not have been able make my way through with no solid ground to stand on.

So I went under. I swam under the ice, back to shore, and I got as close as I could. Then I put my feet down and broke through the layer of ice. I crawled the rest of the way out of the river and through the brush but I was horribly injured and hypothermic.

I feel like the whole affair was terribly irresponsible of me, but I don't know any way I could have avoided it.

I found some plastic wrap that must have had something to do with the cornfield I was next to. I wrapped it around me, and I laid under a hollowed out log, and I grabbed leaves and straw and tried to insulate myself.

I kinda fell asleep. It felt like I died and went to hell, and that's what I thought had happened. I didn't really die, I just had that one moment of fear that woke me back up before the end. So I jumped to my feet and I grabbed a stick to steady me and I trudged my way across the field shouting for an ambulance. I was so confused and scared, but I survived because some friendly people made the call for me.

And that's why I started my project. Someone over there showed me an act of kindness despite my mental battles. Several someones in fact.

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[–] Juniperus@infosec.pub [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago

I also wasn't entirely aware of what was happening to me as it happened. I knew I was on my way somewhere but I thought that was Missouri because of some silly paper.

When I say I "chased a demon into a river," the demon I'm referring to is my fear, I'm not trying to say I heroically chased it off. Once I saw the reality of what was waiting for me across the river there was no question that I had to turn back if I was going to survive.

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