Hey, so my husband got his lay-off notice today. He was the brewer at Mendocino Brewing Company.
Do any of you socialists know how to put together a worker's coop? Because it is absolutely ridiculous that the brewery is standing on one side of a locked door, and everyone who knows how to brew and bottle beer is on the other.
@jannamark I don't have any practical experience, but I sympathize. I suspect that the first step is to reach out to the other displaced workers. The second step is probably to get your own brewing equipment. Third would be to find a site for your brewery.
@starbreaker You are just too darned practical. Here I wanted to seize the means of production, and occupying the brewery!!! *picture fists waving in the air*
hmmm, maybe I should get some sleep
@jannamark I didn't want to suggest anything that could get your husband arrested or summarily executed by militarized police.
@jannamark Besides, your husband and his fellow workers are the actual means of production. They're the ones with the knowledge. The machines won't run themselves.
Not yet, anyway.
@starbreaker good point