A legal right to workplace democracy: the right to collectively buy-in
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The lack of workplace democracy is a serious problem, causing inequality, job insecurity, disrespect, and domination. The fundamental solution is the democratization of workplace. But how might this realistically occur? This paper proposes a novel legal right: All workers should have the right to collectively buy in to their firm by paying the owners the fair value of the firm’s worth. This buy-in grants workers the right to collectively become equal partners, at which point the firm is legally transformed into a worker cooperative. Importantly, this right does not require agreement from the owners. It is shown that this law would provide substantial benefits to workers, whereas the costs to owners are likely to be minor. There may be some costs to the economy more broadly, but these are also likely to be quite modest. For society overall, the benefits of this legislation are likely to significantly outweigh the costs.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it