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Mondragon’s ability to reduce social inequality is praised by Bloomberg / La capacidad de Mondragón para reducir la desigualdad es elogiada por Bloomberg

Posted on August 17, 2022August 1, 2022 by BP

The international leader in information on companies, markets and business has devoted a report and a podcast analyzing how Mondragon has reponded to the pandemic and recognizes the virtues of its business model.

El líder internacional en información sobre compañías mercados y empresas lleva a cabo un informe y un podcast analizando como Mondragón a respondido a la pandemia y reconoce las virtudes de su modelo de negocio.

The Mondragon model has aroused the curiosity of the U.S. newspaper Bloomberg, which wanted to know why more and more U.S. cooperatives are showing interest in a model of “proven effectiveness” that has been able to better withstand the effects of the crisis caused by the pandemic and which, as the headline of the report says, is based on worker ownership and keeps social inequality at bay. 

In addition to the report, Bloomberg has dedicated an episode of its podcast The Pay Check to Mondragon, in which the effects of the pandemic in different countries around the world are discussed to see to what extent the pandemic and its consequences are affecting the distribution of wealth. For the episode devoted to the Spanish economy, Bloomberg spoke with Mondragon executives, workers and other researchers about what differentiates the cooperative model from other places that also have a strong track record on equality, and how the system works in times of crisis. 

Bloomberg highlights that it is the working people who exercise ownership of Mondragon’s 100 or so integrated cooperatives and that the difference between the highest and lowest paid is much smaller than elsewhere. As a general rule, the people who earn the most money do not earn, in any case, more than 6 times more than those who earn the least. 

International interest in Mondragon, particularly in times of crisis

This is not the first time that a global media outlet has taken notice of Mondragon and that international journalists have visited the cooperatives integrated in the Corporation to get a closer look at them. In 2013, the British The Guardian talked about “the giant Spanish cooperative where times are hard, but few go bankrupt” and a couple of years ago The New York Times published a report with an eloquent beginning, “if the Erreka cooperative worked like the rest of the companies”, said the American newspaper, “the pandemic would have been much more traumatic for its workers”. The interest in Mondragon in the United States is not new either. In January of this year, in an interview with the newspaper El País, professor Noam Chomsky praised the virtues of Mondragon, as he had done on previous occasions, and stressed that it is “a successful conglomerate based on the idea that the participants in a community should control it”.

It is precisely times of economic crisis, such as those caused by the health emergency triggered by COVID-19, that increase global interest in a model of approaching work that, as Mondragon’s 2021 data show, has demonstrated a greater capacity to cope with the ups and downs of the economy without losing jobs. 

The Bloomberg report highlights that in Gipuzkoa, where many of the Corporation’s cooperatives are based, the Gini coefficient that measures social inequalities is lower than in countries such as Finland or Sweden, despite the fact that in Scandinavia more taxes are paid, and that part of the reason for this is to be found in a cooperative fabric that creates wealth for its members. 

“The objective of cooperatives is not to produce rich people, it is to produce rich societies,” says Igor Herrarte, a Mondragon Assembly engineer interviewed by Bloomberg, something similar to what Baltasar Garcia Leon tells Bloomberg, who has been working as a cooperativist for three decades and assures that in other parts of the world he perceives greater social differences, “here your boss can be your neighbor.”

Story from: https://www.tulankide.com/

El líder internacional en información sobre compañías mercados y empresas lleva a cabo un informe y un podcast analizando como Mondragón a respondido a la pandemia y reconoce las virtudes de su modelo de negocio.

El modelo Mondragón ha despertado la curiosidad del diario estadounidense Bloomberg, que ha querido saber por qué cada vez más cooperativas estadounidenses se interesan por un modelo de “probada eficacia” que ha podido resistir mejor los efectos de la crisis provocada por la pandemia y que, como dice el titular del reportaje, se basa en el accionariado de los trabajadores y mantiene a raya la desigualdad social.

Además del informe, Bloomberg ha dedicado un episodio de su podcast The Pay Check a Mondragón, en el que se analizan los efectos de la pandemia en diferentes países del mundo para ver hasta qué punto la pandemia y sus consecuencias están afectando a la distribución de la riqueza. Para el episodio dedicado a la economía española, Bloomberg habló con directivos, trabajadores y otros investigadores de Mondragón sobre lo que diferencia al modelo cooperativo de otros lugares que también tienen una sólida trayectoria en materia de igualdad, y cómo funciona el sistema en tiempos de crisis.

Bloomberg destaca que es la gente trabajadora la que ejerce la propiedad de las cerca de 100 cooperativas integradas de Mondragón y que la diferencia entre los mejor pagados y los peor pagados es mucho menor que en otros lugares. Por regla general, las personas que ganan más dinero no ganan, en cualquier caso, más de 6 veces más que las que ganan menos.

Interés internacional por Mondragón, sobre todo en tiempos de crisis

No es la primera vez que un medio de comunicación mundial se fija en Mondragón y que periodistas internacionales visitan las cooperativas integradas en la Corporación para conocerlas de cerca. En 2013, el británico The Guardian hablaba de “la gigantesca cooperativa española donde los tiempos son duros, pero pocos quiebran” y hace un par de años The New York Times publicaba un reportaje con un comienzo elocuente, “si la cooperativa Erreka funcionara como el resto de las empresas”, decía el diario estadounidense, “la pandemia habría sido mucho más traumática para sus trabajadores”. El interés por Mondragón en Estados Unidos tampoco es nuevo. En enero de este año, en una entrevista concedida al diario El País, el profesor Noam Chomsky alabó las virtudes de Mondragón, como ya había hecho en otras ocasiones, y destacó que se trata de “un conglomerado de éxito basado en la idea de que los participantes en una comunidad deben controlarla”.

Son precisamente los momentos de crisis económica, como los provocados por la emergencia sanitaria desencadenada por el COVID-19, los que aumentan el interés mundial por un modelo de acercamiento al trabajo que, como demuestran los datos de Mondragón en 2021, ha demostrado una mayor capacidad para hacer frente a los vaivenes de la economía sin perder puestos de trabajo.

El informe de Bloomberg destaca que en Gipuzkoa, donde se asientan muchas de las cooperativas de la Corporación, el coeficiente de Gini que mide las desigualdades sociales es menor que en países como Finlandia o Suecia, a pesar de que en el país escandinavo se pagan más impuestos, y que parte de la razón hay que buscarla en un tejido cooperativo que crea riqueza para sus socios.

“El objetivo de las cooperativas no es producir gente rica, es producir sociedades ricas”, dice Igor Herrarte, ingeniero de Mondragon Assembly entrevistado por Bloomberg, algo parecido a lo que cuenta Baltasar García León, que lleva tres décadas trabajando como cooperativista y asegura que en otras partes del mundo percibe mayores diferencias sociales, “aquí tu jefe puede ser tu vecino.”

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