Employee Ownership News
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?
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?
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
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.
Getting to fifty million: scaling employee ownership
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.
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?
Is Private Equity about to Co-opt Employee Ownership?
What the launch of the nonprofit Ownership Works could mean to the employee ownership movement.
It Takes an Ecosystem to Save Manufacturing Jobs
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
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.
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