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Not very well did the proposal of the deputy and presidential candidate of Social Convergence (CS), Gabriel Boric, fall into the big business community, who proposed that the boards of large companies have a participation of workers, “equivalent to the representation they have. shareholders, and that there is gender parity in their composition ”.
For the deputy CS, if there was something that made the social outbreak clear, “it is the desire” for a greater participation of citizens in the decisions that affect them. “It is not only about social rights, which are undoubtedly important, but also about real political equality,” he said.
The idea provoked a wide debate over the weekend, but it was observed rather with suspicion by the president of the Confederation of Production and Commerce (CPC), Juan Sutil.
In conversation with Radio Universo, the leader said that this does not correspond and that it’s false” The example given by the deputy on the situation in Germany because, he said, there is an equivalent to the joint committees in Chile where the company’s workers are actually represented, but where decisions are made that “Are not necessarily binding” from the point of view of the impact on the company.
“It is as if we, the shareholders, wanted to participate in 50% of the management of a union and it seems to me that it is not correct because they are interests and different roles within a company ”, said the CPC leader.
The helmsman of the CPC acknowledged that it is a “novel idea”, which “has not been applied anywhere in the world”, but “confuses the roles.”
In this context, Juan Sutil addressed the experience of Friosur, the firm linked to José Luis del Río that decided to integrate the workers into the ownership of the company.
“What Friosur does, as many companies have done in the world, (is that) they sell to their workers (participation), in this case through a cooperative, which is a shareholder of the company. It has its representative and as a representative it has the obligation to be on the board of directors because it is in its role to represent the shareholders. So what Boric proposes, in my opinion, confuses the roles and it does not seem to me to be the correct thing from the point of view of the institutional framework of the companies “, he claimed.
Sutil pointed out in this sense that workers “have always been well represented” in the company through unions and joint committees.
He also recalled the so-called “B companies”, which have a more inclusive and participatory structure.
