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Mondragon Corporation (MC) is a corporation of worker cooperatives and enterprises with four areas of activity: Finance, Industry, Distribution and Knowledge. And it manufactures flanges and pipe accessories for processing oil-gas, petrochemical plants and power generation, copper and aluminium electrical conductors, and components for conveyors. Research and transfer. [23], This business culture translates into compliance with a number of Basic Objectives (Customer Focus, Development, Innovation, Profitability, People in Co-operation and Involvement in the Community) and General Policies approved by the Co-operative Congress, which are taken on board at all the corporation's organisational levels and incorporated into the four-year strategic plans and the annual business plans of the individual co-operatives, divisions, and the corporation as a whole. The most celebrated (and studied) case of a group of companies based wholly on co-operative principles is the Spanish Mondragon Cooperative Corporation. The yield obtained from this fund is used to cover long-term retirement, widowhood, and invalidity benefits, complementary to those offered by the Spanish social security system. 25 years had passed since the start of the MONDRAGON co-operatives, a symbolic anniversary that invited us to take stock of what we had achieved. Ultimately, Fagor was unable to find financing to pay off debts of around $1.5 billion related to a 37 percent slump in sales since 2007 that resulted from Spain’s economic crisis and housing market collapse. Arizmendiarrieta spent a number of years educating young people about a form of humanism based on solidarity and participation, in harmony with Catholic social teaching, and the importance of acquiring the necessary technical knowledge before creating the first co-operative. Local Candidates Embrace Bolder Climate Policies as Federal Policy Has Faltered, States Say They’re Decarcerating, Yet 1 in 5 Prisoners Has Had COVID, On Christmas, Let’s Reach for Hope in This Dark Winter, What Then Must We Do? Vincent Navarro wrote that from a business perspective, Mondragon is successful in matching efficiency with solidarity and democracy. Spanish credit union established in 1959 as part of the Mondragon Corporation and headquartered in Mondragón, in the Basque Country of Spain. [36], In 2012 Richard D. Wolff, an American professor of economics, hailed the Mondragon set of enterprises, including the good wages it provides for employees, the empowerment of ordinary workers in decision making, and the measure of equality for female workers, as a major success and cited it as a working model of an alternative to the capitalist mode of production. It employs roughly 2,000 people in five factories in the Basque region and has and additional 3,500 in eight factories in France, China, Poland and Morocco. [9], During the next 20 years, from 1970 to 1990, the dynamic continued, with a strong increase in new co-operatives promoted by Caja Laboral's Business Division, the promotion of co-operative associations, the formation of local groups, and the founding of the Ikerlan Research Centre in 1974. Sales resulting from the export of products abroad and production generated in the 122 subsidiaries located in several different countries: China (15), France (17), Poland (8), Czech Republic (7), Mexico (8), Brazil (5), Germany (4), Italy (4), United Kingdom (3), Romania (3), United States (4), Turkey (2), Portugal (2), Slovakia (2), India (5), Thailand (1) and Morocco (1). The ORONA Group produces elevators. and Irakasle Eskola S.Coop., which nowadays constitute the University’s two Faculties and School: 1. Caja Laboral had 114 branches and deposits totalling €383.56m (64bn pesetas), an increase over the year of €74.45m (12.4bn … (Photo: colaborativa.eu / Flickr)As America moves more deeply into its growing systemic crisis, it is becoming increasingly important for activists and theorists to distinguish clearly between important projects and “institutional elements,” on the one hand, and systemic change and systemic design, on the other. Research and transfer. MONDRAGON: one year in two minutes Video report of 2010 year http://www.mondragon-corporation.com/ENG/Economic-Data/Yearly-Report.aspx The question of interest, however – and especially to the degree we begin to face the question of what to do about larger industry – is whether trusting in open market competition is a sufficient answer to the problem of longer-term systemic design. [22], This philosophy is complemented by four corporate values: Co-operation, acting as owners and protagonists; Participation, which takes shape as a commitment to management; Social Responsibility, by means of the distribution of wealth based on solidarity; and Innovation, focusing on constant renewal in all areas. In Navarro's view, this establishes a two-tier system - for example, in terms of whom to save in the case the company collapses. Connect with him on Twitter: @KeaneBhatt. You can reach him on Facebook or follow him on Twitter. Time is running out -- donate today & your gift will be MATCHED! Mondragon Corporation P Jose M Arizmendiarrieta 5 , Mondragon , colaborativa.eu / Flickr)” width=”400″ height=”224″ />Mondragón Corporation. This is urgent: Time is running out to make your end-of-year donation to support independent journalism. Work published by the Democracy Collaborative in 2010 helps clarify how this might be done: Three alternative scenarios for how population growth to 2050 might be distributed between cities and suburbs were analyzed. The question in the future is how might we utilize worker and community ownership more effectively and move beyond seeing the companies narrowly (like Fagor) operating in a capitalist sea and market system? Its first product was paraffin heaters. The details of any serious democratic “planning system” inevitably would change as greater sophistication and knowledge are developed – and as noted, in the above example, we looked only at one sector, rather than the larger system as a whole. Mondragon Corporation The Mondragon Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain. It was founded in the town of Mondragón in 1956 by graduates of a local technical college. Mondragon's share in the BRIC markets increased to 20% compared to the previous year. Everyday low … Americans concerned about fundamental, longer-term change need to ponder this particular point carefully. and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain. MONDRAGON Corporation’s Corporate Video, 2019 http://www.mondragon-corporation.com/language/ However, some of the key questions and possibilities for beginning to think through sectoral planning as part of a larger approach are suggested by considering how one significant scale industrial sector might be dealt with. [3] It has announced that its internal insurance company Lagun Aro will pay 80 percent of the cooperative member’s salaries for two years and the corporation will strive to relocate as many employees as possible to other cooperatives in the network. Mondragon Corporation. The company was called Talleres Ulgor, an acronym derived from the surnames of Usatorre, Larrañaga, Gorroñogoitia, Ormaechea, and Ortubay, known today as "Fagor Electrodomésticos". In Robinson's book The Ministry for the Future, the Mondragon Corporation is introduced as a model for a future, post-capitalist, cooperative economy. But what do you do when you are up against a global economic recession, on the one hand, or radical cost challenges from Chinese and other low-cost producers, on the other? Additionally, the number of long-distance trips traveled by airplanes (the worst form of transportation from a carbon emissions standpoint) and cars would have to be reduced and replaced with high-speed rail. corporation. [37] At the end of 2013, Eroski posted a turnover of €6.6 billion, operating 2.069 stores made up of 90 Eroski hypermarkets, 1,211 Eroski/center, Caprabo, Eroski/city, Aliprox, Familia, Onda and Cash & Carry supermarkets, 155 branches of Eroski travel agencies, 63 petrol stations, 39 Forum Sport stores and 221 IF perfume stores. As part of any restructuring or liquidation, Mondragón will provide jobs and income security for a certain period for some its workers in Spain. Space does not permit a full discussion of how participatory planning might be achieved to deal with large-scale unemployment, and economic management in general – two of the severe challenges that have crippled economic development in Spain and contributed to Fagor’s problems. The connection felt by the latter group has somewhat weakened, however, exposing a vulnerable point for the cooperative. Mondragón’s primary emphasis has been on effective and efficient competition. [31], In Industrial Components, Mondragon posted a turnover of €1.5 billion in 2009, a sector in which it operates as an integrated supplier for the leading car manufacturers, offering from the design and development of a part to the industrialization and supply of components and assemblies. Mondragon opened 11 new production subsidiaries. In turn, expenditures under this “plan” would be targeted to place-based economic development strategies around economic institutions structured either as worker-cooperatives or, following new models emerging in Cleveland and other cities, around joint community-worker cooperative structures. [30], In capital goods, Mondragon posted a turnover of €976 million in 2009 and is the leading Spanish manufacturer of machining (Danobat Group) and sheet metal forming (Fagor Arrasate Group) machine tools. The MONDRAGON Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain. The Mondragón was known for its stopping power but suffered from high recoil and poor accuracy when their automatic variants were fired on fully automatic setting. [15] In 2013, international sales grew by 6.7% and accounted for 71.1% of total sales. Can we count on you to help us stay strong? Its first product was paraffin heaters. Mondragón recently announced that Fagor was failing and that the company would be filing for bankruptcy protection. It’s worker-owned, it’s not worker managed, although the management does come from the workforce often, but it’s in a market system and they still exploit workers in South America, and they do things that are harmful to the society as a whole and they have no choice. [21], This framework of business culture has been structured based on a common culture derived from the 10 Basic Co-operative Principles, in which Mondragon is rooted: Open Admission, Democratic Organisation, the Sovereignty of Labour, Instrumental and Subordinate Nature of Capital, Participatory Management, Payment Solidarity, Inter-cooperation, Social Transformation, Universality and Education. Sign up and see the programme. In 1955, he selected five young people to set up the first company of the co-operative and industrial beginning of the Mondragon Corporation. The University was created by the association of three educational cooperatives, with the guarantee of an extensive career and experience in the world of education, these were Mondragon Goi Eskola Politeknikoa “Jose Mª Arizmendiarrieta” S.Coop., ETEO S.Coop. The Fagor failure is a strong reminder that ignoring the question can have consequences. A good benchmark for costs on this – $2 trillion over 15 years for 25,000 kilometers of high-speed track – was put forward by Canadian analysts Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl. not cooperative members) in other countries, however, is unclear. [49] The Mondragon Accord is controlled by means of a network of AIs running on quantum computers, and rules large parts of the Solar System, including Mercury and most of the moons of the gas giants; only part of Earth, and its colonies in space, retain remnants of capitalist economies, while Mars has withdrawn from the Accord in the century preceding the story. Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative, is the author of What Then Must We Do? One important point: A viable alternative systemic/planning solution likely would extend the reach of these companies far beyond selling cars. [11], On the international stage, the aim was to respond to growing globalisation, expanding abroad by setting up production plants in a number of countries. Specifically focusing on the automotive sector, the corporation also manufactures a wide variety of dies, molds and tooling for casting iron and aluminium, and occupies a leading position in machinery for the casting sector. Almost certainly many smaller-scale cooperatives can succeed, if carefully managed, in small markets. Sign up and see the programme. The larger questions posed by the failure, however, are the relationship of large-scale economic institutions to the market in any system, and the lessons for long-term systemic design for people concerned with moving beyond the failings of corporate capitalism and traditional socialism. Bendable Business: Cooperatives less likely to break in economic crises. Truthout is a nonprofit and depends on your financial support. Although it has been criticized for violating its cooperative principles through somewhat “imperial” control of some of its foreign operations, for its use of non-cooperative labor, and for a less-than-active concern with environmental problems, in recent years Mondragón has begun to address deficiencies in these areas. Spain's progressive tax rate further reduces any disparity in pay. Its first product was paraffin heaters. Centro Corporativo de MONDRAGON Pº Jose Mª Arizmendiarrieta nº 5 20500 Mondragón – Gipuzkoa – Spain Tel: +34 943 779 300 Mondragon University . Mondragon Corporation operates in four areas: finance, industry, retail, and knowledge, with the latter distinguishing Mondragon from other business groups. Our daily email newsletter will keep you up to date. Internationalisation consolidates MONDRAGON’s industrial business with sales abroad in excess of €4bn, Internationalisation and innovation, keys to the evolution of MONDRAGON cooperatives in 2013, Spanish white goods company Fagor seeks protection from creditors, Fagor et sa filiale française déposent le bilan, "Catalan company Cata buys bankrupt domestic appliance business Fagor", "Mondragon Corporation. [34] In 2012, it opened 11 new subsidiaries abroad, employing around 14,000 people. In 2013, the corporation posted a total revenue of over €12 billion (roughly US$16 billion), and employed 74,061 workers,[5] making it Spain's fourth-largest industrial and tenth-largest financial group.[28]. The first was the Copreci plant in Mexico in 1990, followed by many others: up to 73 by the end of 2008, and 122 at the end of 2013. Buy Making Mondragón: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex: 14 (Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports) 2 by William Foote Whyte, Kathleen King Whyte (ISBN: 9780875461823) from Amazon's Book Store. It is the fifth-largest manufacturer of such products in Europe. The Mondragon system is one of four case studies analyzed in Capital and the Debt Trap, which summarized evidence claiming that cooperatives tend to last longer and are less susceptible to perverse incentives and other problems of organizational governance than more traditionally managed organizations. Truthout is a nonprofit and we depend on readers just like you to survive. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mondragon. Ondoan: Turnkey projects in the energy and environmental sector. It always sought to compete successfully in the existing system, at the same time demonstrating a superior form of internal organization. We’ll send you the top news, analysis and commentary from Truthout’s reporters and leading progressive thinkers, as well as the best reprints from other independent news sources. Mondragon also participated in 91 international R&D projects. Spanish law, however, requires that members of the Mondragon Corporation are registered as self-employed and are not employees. It also produces components for the main domestic appliance manufacturers in three business areas: white goods, home comfort, and electronics. It was founded in the town of Mondragon in 1956 by José María Arizmendiarrieta and a group of his students at a technical college he founded. [42][43], Mondragon University is a co-operative university, which combines the development of knowledge, skills, and values, and maintains close relations with business, especially Mondragon co-operatives. [25], Compared to similar jobs at local industries, Mondragon managers' wages are considerably lower (as some companies pay their best paid managers hundreds of times more than the lowest-paid employee of the company)[26] and equivalent for middle management, technical and professional levels. Mondragón has been justly cited as a leading example of what can be done through cooperative organization. Given its importance, we are certain to see any number of economic reports on the specific problems that created the failure of Fagor. MCCTelecom: Telecommunication engineering. Find link is a tool written by Edward Betts.. searching for Mondragon Corporation 2 found (42 total) alternate case: mondragon Corporation Employee stock ownership (1,836 words) exact match in snippet view article find links to article Corporation. The culture is rooted in a shared mission and a number of principles, corporate values and business policies. "Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stakeholder Society" (1999), by Race Mathews, Pluto Press (Australia) and Comerford & Miller (London). Keane Bhatt is an activist in Washington, DC. Mondragon corporation worldwide; Partners institutions; Programs networks and projects; Mondragon international education (MIE) International cooperation; International days . [39], Retail includes the food group Erkop, for catering, cleaning, stock-breeding, and horticulture with Auzo Lagun, a co-operative in group catering and cleaning of buildings and premises, and integrated service in the health sector. Founded in 1956 by Father José María Arizmendiarrieta, the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation currently consists of 102 federated cooperatives employing over … [10], With Spain scheduled to join the European Economic Community in 1986, it was decided in 1984 to set up the "Mondragon Co-operative Group", the forerunner of the current corporation. That is, the general manager of an average Mondragon cooperative earns no more than 5 times as much as the theoretical minimum wage paid in their cooperative. It is the tenth-largest Spanish company in terms of asset turnover and the leading business group in the Basque Country. The fate of Fagor – and the future of many other cooperatives now attempting to compete at higher levels – suggests that if “the system question” is not addressed in theory and in practice, and in sophisticated longer-term design, many of the hopes generated by even so brilliant an experiment as Mondragón may be thwarted by forces more powerful than any one element in a system can handle alone. Research and transfer. Engineering technology. Please, do what you can to keep us strong in 2021. The worker-owners and consumer-members participate in the co-operative's decision-making bodies and management of Eroski. Straight Talk About The Next American Revolution (Chelsea Green, May Day 2013). It is the largest cooperative in the world.[4]. If you give today, your tax-deductible gift will be matched, dollar for dollar! Our end-of-year fundraiser is when we most need your support. is a . In the leisure and sports area, it manufactures Orbea bicycles, exercise equipment and items for camping, garden and beach. International sales that year accounted for 69% of all sales, a 26% increase from 2009 to 2012, and with 14,000 employees abroad. 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Sign up and see the programme. Mondragon University (officially in Basque: Mondragon Unibertsitatea, MU) is a non-profit cooperative private university in the Basque Country, officially established and recognised in 1997.It is part of Mondragon Corporation.Its main campus is in Mondragón, Gipuzkoa.. As of February 2016 it had about 4000 students pursuing 22 bachelor's degrees, 13 master's degrees and several advanced courses. [46], In an April 2012 interview Noam Chomsky said that while Mondragon offers an alternative to capitalism, it was still embedded in a capitalist system which limits Mondragon's decisions:[47]. [32], In construction, sales totaled €974 million in 2009. Time is running out -- donate & your gift will be MATCHED! Created in 1997 and officially recognised by Law 4/1997 of 30th May. [25] If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. [citation needed], In 2013, 71.1% of turnover came from international sales. Its direct predecessor (ULGOR) was the first-ever Mondragón cooperative – established in 1956 by five young students of José María Arizmendiarrieta, the spiritual founder of Mondragón cooperative network. This area includes the banking business of Laboral Kutxa, the insurance company Seguros Lagun Aro, and the Voluntary Social Welfare Body Lagun Aro, which had an asset fund totaling €5,566 million at the end of 2014. Mondragon corporation worldwide; Partners institutions; Programs networks and projects; Mondragon international education (MIE) International cooperation; International days. All three options would require major expansion of local public transportation, at an annual cost of at least $240 billion – $140 billion for increased operating costs and $100 billion for capital spending. From June 5th to June 7th. Lower wage levels are on average 13% higher than similar jobs at local businesses. The goals were to increase competitiveness and market share, bring component supply closer to customers' plants, especially in the automotive and domestic appliance sectors, and to strengthen employment in the Basque Country by promoting exports of co-operatives' products by means of new platforms. Time is running out to make your end-of-year tax-deductible donation for 2020. It was founded in the town of Mondragon in 1956 by graduates of a local technical college. The Financial Group of Mondragon includes Caja Laboral (Working People’s Bank), a cooperative bank and a credit union at the center of the corporation. But moving to scale – as Fagor did in entering the global market for appliances – means that the fate of the institution also rests on the fate of the larger market, and on competition within that market, whether global, as in the case of Fagor, or domestic, as in the case of many other industries. Mondragón Corporation is an extraordinary 80,000-person grouping of worker-owned cooperatives based in Spain’s Basque region that is teaching the world how to move the ideas of worker-ownership and cooperation into high gear and large scale. MONDRAGON is the outcome of a cooperative business project launched in 1956. [14], The industrial sector ended 2012 with a new record of €4 billion in international sales, beating sales figures from before the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Actually, one of the successes of Mondragon was its ability to create a sense of identity among the workers within the company, encouraging an environment of solidarity and collegiality among them, a feeling that also extended (although to a much lesser degree) to non-worker-owners. Cata pledged to create 705 direct jobs in the Basque Country and to continue the brand names Fagor, Edesa, Aspes, and Splendid. Corporación MONDRAGON, referencia mundial del trabajo en cooperación, constituye el primer grupo empresarial del País Vasco y el décimo de España. Mondragón itself, and proposals for systemic change based on larger-scale cooperatives in general, have only occasionally directly confronted some of the larger challenges that the market poses to cooperative institutional forms. Each year, it also teaches some 10,000 students in its education centers and has roughly 2,000 researchers working at 15 research centers, the University of Mondragón, and within its industrial cooperatives. [18] In July 2014, Fagor was bought by catalonian company Cata for €42.5 million. MONDRAGON Corporation is the embodiment of the co-operative movement that began in 1956, the year that witnessed the creation of the first industrial cooperative in Mondragón in the province of Gipuzkoa; its business philosophy is contained in its Corporate Values: Cooperation. These machines are complemented by automation and control products for machine tools, packaging machinery, machinery for automating assembly processes and processing wood, forklift trucks, electric transformers, integrated equipment for the catering industry, cold stores, and refrigeration equipment. [45] In 2013 its network of technology centers and R&D units provided employment for 1,700 people and the commitment to R&D&I matters amounted to 136 million Euros, 8.5% of added value. A serious “next stage” systemic design almost certainly will have to adopt one or another form of “planned trade” rather than “free market trade” – else the fate of specific firms, and specific groups of workers, and also the communities in which both exist, become subject to the ever-intensifying challenges as corporations play one low-wage country off against another, with the destruction of wage standards and firms (cooperative or otherwise) the inevitable result. Technological innovation is generated through the co-operatives' own R&D departments, the Corporate Science and Technology Plan, the corporation's 12 technology centers and the Garaia Innovation Park. Engineering technology. It also actively educates its workers about cooperatives’ principles, with around 3,000 people a year participating in its Cooperative Training program and 400 in its Leadership and Team Work program. [35], In 2014, the industrial cooperatives created 1,000 jobs, and internationalization continued with 125 production subsidiaries abroad - 3 more than the year before. These low wages make it very difficult to recruit managers from investor-owned firms. Company profile page for Mondragon Corp Cooperativa including stock price, company news, press releases, executives, board members, and contact information Can we count on you to help us stay strong? The founders of Cooperation Jackson, a network of worker cooperatives in Jackson, Mississippi in the United States, cite Mondragon as a key inspiration. Once known as one of the poorest regions in Spain, the Basque region is now the richest, prospering due to a strong sense of self-determination, grassroots participation and non-governmental intervention. Social Responsibility. Mondragon corporation worldwide; Partners institutions; Programs networks and projects; Mondragon international education (MIE) International cooperation; International days . Mondragón Corporation is an extraordinary 80,000-person grouping of worker-owned cooperatives based in Spain’s Basque region that is teaching the world how to move the ideas of worker-ownership and cooperation into high gear and large scale. Time is running out to make your end-of-year donation to support Truthout. The recent economic failure of one of the most important units of the Mondragón cooperatives offers an opportunity to clarify the issue and begin to think more clearly about our own strategy in the United States. The fate of the roughly 3,500 non-Spanish wage laborers (i.e. If you’re in a system where you must make a profit in order to survive, you're compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others. The corporation's companies manufacture consumer goods, capital goods, industrial components, products, and systems for construction, and services. Participation. Politicians Failed Us in 2020. (One somewhat limited form of this, by the way, actually occurred during the recent Great Recession in 2009, when the government and autoworkers’ employee health care benefit fund assumed ownership shares in Chrysler and General Motors.) Straight Talk About The Next American Revolution. Please make a tax-deductible monthly or one-time donation today! 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