Article III –
Education, Work and Cooperation: Abolition of the wages system, institutional
hierarchy and bosses.
3.A. – A
cosmopolitan education for all building solidarity within and across
territories
All citizens of a city or township shall be provided with a public
education free of charge at schools run on a basis determined by the citizens
of that city. All public education shall however be connected to the learning
of practical skills at one or more of the cooperative organizations or business
enterprises of the city, and the learning of a professional degree
(engineering, nursing, software writing, history, etc.). All students in every
city shall spend one semester of their Secondary School years traveling to other
cities in their region to see how that city is governed, how its trades and
skills are developed and how its cooperatives work. Upon graduation from
University, all students in the regions north of the Mediterranean Sea, the Rio
Grande River or the city of Vladivostok shall spend one year in a city in a
region in the South of the world as a guest citizen, helping to provide
transfer technology and other resources to enable those parts of the world to
quickly arrive at a comfortable and sustainable living condition for their
citizens, and students from the South will likewise reside for a year upon
graduation in a city of the North so as to gain access to useful technology,
knowledge and techniques while sharing the cultural knowledge and ways of their
own city with the residents of the northern city.
3.B. –
Cooperatives are schools of self-government and realization of everyone’s
abilities
All business enterprises and organizations in every city shall be owned
in the final instance by the city’s or township’s citizens as a whole. All
enterprises involving more than 5 persons shall be managed as cooperatives by
the workers together with the clients, patients or service-provided citizens
relevant to that organization, the latter group (clients etc.) to serve on a
rotating basis as in jury duty and for periods of not more than one year, and
in proportion of 1/1 with the workers at the enterprise or organization. On all
questions of work that do not directly involve or affect clients however, such
as hours of work, safety at work, how to carry out specific tasks, and so on, the workers themselves will decide
but will keep the clients informed of their decisions and where possible seek
approval by the latter as a gesture of good will.
A City or Township Council with two branches shall administer the
decisions taken by the citizens themselves and their delegates on a day to day
basis. One branch will deal with city or township issues as a whole, including
relationships with other cities and regions, and will consist of an appropriate
number of citizens (for each city given its size and population) chosen by
random to serve one-year terms. This council will also oversee, or will create
an agency of some of its members and also including delegates from other cities
in the proportion of 5/1 to oversee the decisions taken by the other branch,
the Cooperatives Council in its role of oversight of the enterprises,
organizations and funds provided publicly to these by the city in both local
and global currency.
The Cooperatives Council will coordinate, administer and make rules for
the cooperatives making up the economic life of the city. They will send
delegates to the Regional Cooperatives Council which will coordinate and
develop plans in accordance with the already expressed decisions of the
cooperative assemblies and the City and Township citizen assemblies to deal
with larger scale questions of management of common transport and
communications, ecological repair and sustainability, resource management beyond
the boundaries of cities and townships and other related issues.
3.C. – Regional coordination
by delegated administration enables cooperation among cities and townships
A Regional Cities and Townships Council will coordinate the cooperation
among cities in the region on issues of common concern, will oversee the organization
of city self-defense without however exercising any authority over the
self-defense organizations, will seek to develop needed common infrastructure
by cooperation leading to the pooling of Universal money funds provided to
cities for common uses approved by the citizens of each city and township by
referendum and in neighborhood assemblies. But it will not have the authority
for example to negotiate with other Regions or Continents on political or
economic issues. These powers remain with the cities and can only be
temporarily delegated for extraordinary purposes.
3.D. – Work as
free activity for all without the whip of hunger or need and without bosses
Each city and township will insure that each citizen has useful work to
do with a cooperative organization or enterprise. Cooperatives are schools of
citizenship and self-government and the contribution to the general good is a
central right and duty of all city and township citizens. Citizens shall be
free to seek and apply for membership with any cooperative they choose and
employment shall be determined by the members of that cooperative, as well as,
in extreme cases, the ending of such membership if a member is determined to
have violated basic rules, put others in danger, damaged the means of
production or in some other way to have violated the norms of the cooperative
to such a degree as to merit expulsion. But each cooperative shall be required
by each city to hold a number of positions available to those requiring
placement in useful work and an agency of the city chosen by random but
overseen by the Cooperatives Council proportionate to the likely need for work
placement beyond the immediate membership applications by the cooperative’s members.
Those citizens placed in cooperatives by the Cooperatives Council agency shall
be full voting and managing members of the cooperative in which they are placed
on an equal basis with all others, with the same rights and duties. All new
members of cooperatives become full voting and permanent members, subject only
to the extraordinary disciplinary rules outlined above, after a 90 day
probationary period.
Each cooperative will designate at least two days per week or 9 days per
calendar month in which their members will not be expected to work, though
these need not be the same day for each cooperative member, but these days are
to be decided by the members themselves as appropriate for the kind of work
they do and type of product or service their cooperative provides. These days
may not ever coincide with the days which the city has designated for assembly participation in
self-government, but are intended for rest and for the activities freely
engaged in by cooperative members, their families and friends. The general
tendency and overall objective is for less work time to be required with
periodic reductions of required work time as the overall productivity worldwide
rises. But many cities or townships may choose freely to carry out work in
traditional or labor-intensive ways due to local cultural values. But work may
never be imposed either by physical force (see the ban on slavery and related
practices), by threat or practice of withholding needed resources or income
needed for survival, by debt (see ban on debt), nor be required to exceed the
number of days proscribed herein.
3.E. Provision
for but limits on private business enterprise.
Some small privately run businesses, such as restaurants and some
personal service businesses will continue to exist, and any citizen is free to
seek and accept employment in any private business with 5 or fewer members,
founders and their family members included. Should a family or household
consist of more than 5 persons and wish to establish an enterprise, they may do
so, but under the regulations established by that city for such organizations,
but they may not employ other non-family member citizens.
3.F – Abolition of
the Wages System. Income Separated from Work, with universal access to needs.
The wages system is abolished. No pay will be received or provided by
cooperative or private businesses in any currency local or universal nor in
kind. All citizens’ material needs are provided for by the guaranteed universal
income through the direct transfer by the local and global public finance
agencies, and by the rights and duties of their citizenship in their respective
city.
Payment in global money may be provided to opting out individuals, though such payments may never exceed 1% of the funds provided to the city by the global authority.
Education, housing, health care, access to wi-fi internet and related
networks, transportation within the boundaries of one’s city, and meals at a
common neighborhood cafeteria (which may not be required by the city or
township for more a maximum than one meal a week at the most should this be a
local cultural and social norm established by its citizens, but which will be
available to all in the neighborhood provided they inform the cafeteria’s staff
of their intention to be present for the meal no later than at the closing time
of the previous meal that same day), will all be provided free of charge to all
citizens and a certain number of guests to be determined by each city or each
neighborhood as each city or township decides.
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