
Employee Ownership News

Can ESOPs Help Recreate Social Trust in America?
Increased economic security and participation at work could strengthen democracy.
Apis & Heritage Brings Justice Lens to ESOP Transitions
Fund completes its first two deals, impacting 150-plus workers
Elevating Home Care Together
Elevate Cooperative — a new national network made up of home care cooperatives pooling resources and working together — aims to change the future of home care.
Andrea Dehlendorf: Working with Private Equity to Make Jobs Better
Americans need to better understand the role of Wall Street and private equity in our economy.
Andrea Armeni: An Opportunity to Spur Deep Structural Change
Ownership Works can be a conversation starter and spur conversations about who is creating the value and who should capture it.
Joseph Cureton: Success is more than an increase in financial value
I see this as an opening, an opportunity for the idea of worker ownership to become more mainstream.
Are the Barbarians at the Gate?
Part 3: Is this real employee ownership?

Employee Ownership and Ecological Sustainability

International Employee Ownership Organizations Endorse Corporate Responsibility
Growing momentum to put social purpose at the center of employee ownership firms.
In Brief: Employee Ownership News Updates, October 2020
Books, films, conference updates and more
ASBC Recommends “Creating an Economic System that Works for All”
New report calls for broadening employee ownership, among other recommendations.

Cities and states accelerating the employee-owned economy

States Advance Employee Ownership Legislation
Efforts to create state offices to support employee ownership transitions moving forward.
Positioning SSBCI to Benefit Employee Ownership
The Vermont Employee Ownership Center is engaging the state’s economic development agencies to ensure that the state’s SSBCI program supports employee ownership transitions.
Worker Co-ops Gaining Attention
New research and reports show importance of ecosystems for growing cooperative economy.

21st century models for employee ownership

Elevating Home Care Together
Elevate Cooperative — a new national network made up of home care cooperatives pooling resources and working together — aims to change the future of home care.
Andrea Dehlendorf: Working with Private Equity to Make Jobs Better
Americans need to better understand the role of Wall Street and private equity in our economy.
Andrea Armeni: An Opportunity to Spur Deep Structural Change
Ownership Works can be a conversation starter and spur conversations about who is creating the value and who should capture it.

Getting to fifty million: scaling employee ownership

Can ESOPs Help Recreate Social Trust in America?
Increased economic security and participation at work could strengthen democracy.
Apis & Heritage Brings Justice Lens to ESOP Transitions
Fund completes its first two deals, impacting 150-plus workers
Elevating Home Care Together
Elevate Cooperative — a new national network made up of home care cooperatives pooling resources and working together — aims to change the future of home care.
Ian Mohler: A Piece of the Pie Is Better than No Slice at All
Offering equity to workers is a good thing, and we can argue later about what share of the pie is most appropriate.
Delilah Rothenberg: A step in the right direction, but only one piece of the puzzle
As long as the wealth of GPs grows exponentially faster than that of everyone else, economic inequality will continue to grow.
Are the Barbarians at the Gate?
Part 2: If equity shares increase workers’ productivity, who benefits?
Jim Bonham: Enter the Dragon?
Making modest investments to a non-profit in order to take shelter from the negative public sentiment resulting from the massive and growing wealth inequality in America is a cheap way to diffuse heat.
Ian MacFarlane: Can we call this “employee ownership”?
It seems they’re doing what big capital does: take over a concept like employee ownership and make it their own in order to make more money.
Are the Barbarians at the Gate?
Part 1: Can private equity be trusted to prioritize worker benefit?
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