In Germany they have this alternative structure called the work council. My understanding of it (I had 2-3 workers in Germany 5 years ago) was that it was essentially a union, but only the "good parts". They spoke up around things like stack ranking (and could vote it down) and generally acted as the "employee's HR". Everyone in the council also had to be an employee so you didn't have the overhead (or mob influences) of a traditional "pay in" union scheme.
Anyone here from Germany that can describe it more and talk about what you like / dislike about this system?
Also would like to hear from the Germans how their software billionaires think of unions?
With unions I find it hard to imagine being able to gift 30 billion dollars to future Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates.
Anyone here from Germany that can describe it more and talk about what you like / dislike about this system?