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OK, but they will still need a CEO.

Yes but the CEO's role would be very different.

if anyone needs any inspiration, in Germany the company's employee labor union has a board seat or two, by law (for share based companies above a certain size).

I just never see anything remotely close to that in the US discussions, by the people most interested in employee activism or union formation. I get the impression people don't even know its something to they could be putting energy towards.

first English google result I could find on the concept

https://www.worker-participation.eu/National-Industrial-Rela...

At every opportunity I drop Mondragon corporation. They have a long and impressive history, BBC had a documentary on it, which despite being filmed in the '80s, and worthless to them is being withdrawn from Youtube due to IP. Very interesting if you can find it, but most of anything I've seen written about the topic is.

Actually:

The Mondragon Experiment:

https://vimeo.com/161252994

Honeycomb does this as well https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/employee-representative-board-...

How so?

Accountable to employees and not "the invisible hand of the market" nor shareholders.

Not if they form a co-op!

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