Why U.S. Corporate Boards Don’t Include Workers
How would a board seat even represent all of the employees?  Would the arrangement be any less corrupt than the way unions represent workers?  Would organized crime get involved?<p>Employees have power over the company.  They can leave it for another company.   
 At any time, actually.  Companies have to compete for employees.<p>Of course, employees CAN own stock and accumulate enough to get a seat, assuming they can agree.  And that, of course, is the problem.  Employees won&#x27;t agree on everything so the majority of employees will get represented and the rest of the employees will not be represented.<p>Winner-take-all decision making opens the door for corruption.  It plagues our democracy.  Why shouldn&#x27;t it also plague corporate decision making?<p>If you had an arrangement where employees voted on board issues and the YES employee votes were proportionally assigned to the YES side of the board vote and the NO employee votes were proportionally assigned to the NO side of the board vote, that would make a little more sense.<p>But that would mean the workers would have to be privy to the board&#x27;s discussions, which means the world will know what they discuss.<p>So, without that proportionality, the employee representative can actually make backroom deals with the other board members.  Deals that might benefit him but cost those he represents a lot.