Taking care of business
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1498468,00.html
Oliver Balch assesses the challenges facing firms taken over by their
workforces amid Argentina's economic meltdown
Friday June 3, 2005
For =A319 a night, Hotel Bauen offers a choice of 160 rooms, seven
conference suites, one swimming pool and a new lobby bar. The only
thing it doesn't have is official owners.
Situated in downtown Buenos Aires, Bauen has become a beacon for a new
experiment in worker-led business that has sprung up in crisis-hit
Argentina.
"We turned up for work as normal on December 28 2001 and found the
hotel was closed," says Marcelo Ruarte, who joined Bauen 25 years ago
as a porter and is currently president of the employee cooperative that
now runs it.
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