"Empower workers to come together and fight the boss. Protect, expand, and enforce the rights of all workers to form, join, and strike with their unions, regardless of industry. Support union members who organize reform caucuses, democratize their unions, and take political action."
- DSA https://program.dsausa.org/
So, is it democratic for an employee to fight the boss? What does that employer think in a current democratic society? He, too - or she - has a boss. Does that person, in turn, start an up-bound fight? And how far up the chain does that go? Perhaps it is wrong to consider this relationship to be naturally combative. It is a little cheeky to believe all "bosses" are autocrats. It is supposed that if one believes there are rights to "Protect, expand, and enforce the rights of all workers to form, join, and strike with their unions, regardless of industry..." it follows one should also have the right, in a true democracy, "regardless of industry," and if one chooses, to not "...form, join, and strike with their unions."
If we really comply with the definition of democracy, that must be a factor relative to joining unions, or not. With a continued eligibility to choose, with acceptance of circumstances to that choice, one is then truly democratic. Does DSA disagree? Apparently, by this lengthy, convoluted platform, it seems they do disagree. Because, according to this fight, bosses cannot also be included in a "democracy," because only "workers" can "...organize reform caucuses, democratize their unions, and take political action."
Again, aren't bosses workers, too? When I was a boss, I spent more time with our team than at my desk. That was the last place I wanted to be. That way, I didn't have to have an "open-door policy," because, usually, there was no door, let alone a separate room.