The Workplace

 

I have long been an advocate of workers’ rights. I have long worked inside of union shops and in non-union shops. There are real differences between them, and distinct advantages and disadvantages to both, but those I will not mention here.

 

This article is about what they have in common. I seek to democratize the workplace. This does not mean that owners, managers, and supervisors do not continue to call the shots. They do.

 

 But a workforce of individuating supercitizens, so smart, independent-thinking, radically individualistic, outspoken, and unwilling to be tyrannized, exploited, disrespected, abused, ignored or tyrannizez, do contribute to real consternation and paralysis of operation and decision-making for the angered, exasperated, owner or manager not trained to work with such an excellent, strong-willed work force.

 

If we can democratize the workplace, and democratize managers and supervisors, and flood the workplace with individuating supercitizen workers, this peaceful revolution would transform the workplace for the better. It would morally bring excellence to the workplace, wherein workers’ rights as human rights.

 

Once Management accepts and implements this reform, it would generally experience the pleasing outcome that happy, motivated employees treated with dignity and respect, work hard and better, and the company will make more money, provide better services, manufacture superior products.

 

My dream is that individuating supercitizens, as average and yet exceptional citizens, taxpayers, consumers, and workers, would revolutionize all institutions to which they belong and participate in.

 

Individuating citizens and citizens involved in political processes have the potential to democratize the country on the or macro-level or national level, and if the workforce in a company or college is of individuators, it will transform and democratize the workplace on the micro-level or local level.

 

I believe that the social relations between individuating supercitizens have the great promise of changing substantively social arrangements, for the better.