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Employee Ownership News

Andrea Dehlendorf: Working with Private Equity to Make Jobs Better

May 25, 2022

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

May 25, 2022

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

May 25, 2022

I see this as an opening, an opportunity for the idea of worker ownership to become more mainstream.

Are the Barbarians at the Gate?

May 25, 2022

Part 3: Is this real employee ownership?

Ian Mohler: A Piece of the Pie Is Better than No Slice at All

May 24, 2022

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

May 23, 2022

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?

May 22, 2022

Part 2: If equity shares increase workers’ productivity, who benefits?

Employee Ownership and Ecological Sustainability

International Employee Ownership Organizations Endorse Corporate Responsibility

June 25, 2021

Growing momentum to put social purpose at the center of employee ownership firms.

In Brief: Employee Ownership News Updates, October 2020

November 2, 2020

Books, films, conference updates and more

ASBC Recommends “Creating an Economic System that Works for All”

October 23, 2020

New report calls for broadening employee ownership, among other recommendations.

All stories on ecological sustainability…

Cities and states accelerating the employee-owned economy

States Advance Employee Ownership Legislation

April 1, 2022

Efforts to create state offices to support employee ownership transitions moving forward.

Positioning SSBCI to Benefit Employee Ownership

March 10, 2022

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

February 7, 2022

New research and reports show importance of ecosystems for growing cooperative economy.

All stories on local strategies…

21st century models for employee ownership

Andrea Dehlendorf: Working with Private Equity to Make Jobs Better

May 25, 2022

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

May 25, 2022

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

May 25, 2022

I see this as an opening, an opportunity for the idea of worker ownership to become more mainstream.

All stories on 21st century employee ownership…

Getting to fifty million: scaling employee ownership

Andrea Dehlendorf: Working with Private Equity to Make Jobs Better

May 25, 2022

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

May 25, 2022

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

May 25, 2022

I see this as an opening, an opportunity for the idea of worker ownership to become more mainstream.

All stories on scaling employee ownership…
Jim Bonham: Enter the Dragon?
May 19, 2022

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”?
May 19, 2022

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?   
May 19, 2022

Part 1: Can private equity be trusted to prioritize worker benefit?

Is Private Equity about to Co-opt Employee Ownership?
May 18, 2022

What the launch of the nonprofit Ownership Works could mean to the employee ownership movement.

It Takes an Ecosystem to Save Manufacturing Jobs
May 10, 2022

The Urban Manufacturing Alliance, in cooperation with Common Future, launches effort to transition small manufacturing plants to employee ownership.

Folience, a 100% ESOP-owned Holding Company, Eases Path to Exit
April 7, 2022

The ESOP holding company can make it easier for the founder to exit at the same time that it enables employees to take their place as owners.

Older stories….

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