Editing Syndicate (section)

==Labor syndicates==
{{Main|Trade union}}

A syndicate, labor syndicate<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/world/americas/leader-of-mexican-teachers-union-arrested.html|title=Powerful Leader of Mexican Teachers' Union Is Arrested|author=Randal C. Archibold|date=26 February 2013|website=The New York Times|access-date=25 May 2018|quote=The leader of Mexico’s powerful teachers’ union, the largest labor syndicate in Latin America, has been arrested . . .|archive-date=29 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429230903/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/world/americas/leader-of-mexican-teachers-union-arrested.html|url-status=live}}</ref> or worker's syndicate can also mean a [[trade union]]. This usage mirrors the common meaning of the word's etymological cousins in languages such as French and Spanish.

===Worker-managed enterprise===
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In this sense, the term is also associated with anarchist theory, specifically [[anarcho-syndicalism]], in which trade unions form an alternative to both the nation state and capitalist corporations. Anarchists, syndicalists, and other [[libertarian socialist]]s use the word "syndicate" to refer to an enterprise managed by its workers. Such an enterprise is governed by a face-to-face meeting of everyone who works there, in which each worker has one vote. Either there are no managers, or the managers are directly elected and recallable. In either case, the most important decisions are made collectively by the whole workforce. This is known as [[workers' self-management]].