This article argues that democratic institutions for conflict resolution su
ch as an independent judicial process are an important extension of workpla
ce democracy. Using a survey of all taxi stations in Haifa, Israel, this st
udy tries to describe and explain the existence of democratic justice regim
es in work organizations. The study finds that all the worker-owned taxi st
ations studied elect both managers to run the stations and judges to operat
e an internal court. Most worker-owned stations institute a separation of t
he executive and the judicial branches. The study also finds a positive rel
ationship between having a majority of hired drivers in worker-owned statio
ns and having democratic governance structures, including an independent ju
diciary. This finding poses a challenge to existing literature that portray
s a growing percentage of hired labour in cooperatives as a sign of 'degene
ration' of democratic values. Finally, a positive relationship is found bet
ween ethnic succession among members in taxi cooperatives and the existence
of democratic justice regimes.