Solarpunk

Hi! Sorry for the late answer, I am not sure why I did not see an answer notification until now.

That's really interesting.

I am not sure I understand what the different between productive and organizational structures are?

I have a few down to earth questions:

• How is the hierarchy organized/avoided? I guess there must be some managers, but are they considered like peers, are they elected with a mandate?

• My understanding is that wages are public. Are there wage differences? How big? How does that gets decided?

• You metion cultural differences, do you have any specific in mind when it comes to France? I know in the past there were frictions with unions, as Mondragon did not consider unions useful anymore as they have their own control structure, but is that debate still active? Are there any other cultural differences that can hurt?

• Do cooperatives compete between them? I could see reasons to do so, if one is dysfunctional, but I can also see scenarios where they would prefer to simply merge. Does this type of things happen? Has it happened in Mondragon?

I did not know about the knowledge courses, that's a good information, thanks! I guess I need to start scheduling middle-term to find a window to go there.

Yes I know that there are many different things that are called cooperatives and that not all of them are workers cooperatives, one indeed needs to be precise when using that word. In theory consumer cooperatives should be called "mutuals" but we rarely see that word used outside of banking and insurance mutuals.