At a time when consumer focus on Canadian brands is at an all-time high, Mountain Equipment Company (MEC) announces that it has agreed to be acquired by a Canadian-led ownership group.
I was member as well so I AM your ilk, the coop had MILLIONS of members. IIRC from the last few disclosures less than 1% ever voted on anything.
I bet if you banded together even 10k worth of people to vote a certain way you could have swayed ANY of the open annual elections.
However what happened most of the time is about 5 whiny assholes showed up to AGM meetings and bitched and complained when they should have been rounding up support OUTSIDE the meetings to get people in to vote.
I was member as well so I AM your ilk, the coop had MILLIONS of members. IIRC from the last few disclosures less than 1% ever voted on anything.
I bet if you banded together even 10k worth of people to vote a certain way you could have swayed ANY of the open annual elections.
However what happened most of the time is about 5 whiny assholes showed up to AGM meetings and bitched and complained when they should have been rounding up support OUTSIDE the meetings to get people in to vote.