How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op | The New Yorker

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In Spain, an industrial-sized conglomerate owned by its workers suggests an alternative future for capitalism.

Save this story Save this story Jorge Vega Hernández, a mechanical engineer working in northwestern Spain, returned from a business trip and started to feel sick. It was March, 2020—the beginning of the pandemic—and so he called a government help line. He was told that he might have the coronavirus and that he should stay home. But, without leaving the house for a test, Hernández couldn’t get proof of his illness—and, without that proof, he had no excuse for not coming into work. A week after he got sick, he said, his company fired him. (The firm cited “insufficient” job performance as the mot

How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op | The New Yorker

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