If you actually want democracy and fairness, make the whole thing a co-op.
Sure, it's good to reveal salaries. The "don't tell the others what you make" common thing from management is actually a way to keep employees disconnected and powerless so they don't organize. I'm not sure the revealing of salaries has to go along with this complex political system they've invented. Co-ops already have worked out ways to deal with these things. We don't need constant wheel-reinvention.
Absolutely. If you want a democratic workplace, form a co-op.
If anyone's interested in reading about cooperativism in the tech world, a starting point is http://techworker.coop/
I can't think of many tech companies that are coops. Plausible Labs, developers of VoodooPad (https://plausible.coop/voodoopad/), is the one that springs to mind first. Most of the other coops I know of are small design/development studios.
Sure, it's good to reveal salaries. The "don't tell the others what you make" common thing from management is actually a way to keep employees disconnected and powerless so they don't organize. I'm not sure the revealing of salaries has to go along with this complex political system they've invented. Co-ops already have worked out ways to deal with these things. We don't need constant wheel-reinvention.