Emerging Democratic Party Strategy: A Role for Employee Ownership?

When Sen. Charles Schumer announced the emergence of a new economic message for the Democratic Party, he did not mention employee ownership. In a Fortune blog post, Joseph Blasi and Doug Kruse point out the possibilities for the Democrats, concluding that

The Democratic Party has a tall order to retrain the American workforce and make sure that existing employees and the retrained employees of the middle class not only have a crack at a better deal through fair wages, but also have access to wage and income growth, including shares of profits and equity in the companies that they will help to make successful. The good news is that these are ideas that can easily attract Republican support.