Loren Rodgers
Announcing the NCEOX Collaboration
If you were not in Kansas City last week for the 2023 Employee Ownership Conference, I want to share an announcement I made:
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Just-Launched “Shares Laboratory” to Study Equity Compensation
The Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers University announced on April 18 that it is launching the Shares Laboratory. The lab will use "big data" and a model of the national labor force to conduct research, monitoring, and policy-relevant work on all forms of equity compensation.
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Announcing the 2023 NCEO Board of Directors
The NCEO is delighted to announce six new members of its board of directors: Lori Atone, Jennifer Briggs, Haydee Caldero, Timothy Garbinsky, Susan Kildahl, and Dan Markowitz -- their bios are below. The three-year terms of the new directors will begin on April 1, 2023. Congratulations and thanks to our new directors!
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Two Coops Leave the Mondragon Corporation
The Mondragon Corporation of Spain’s Basque region, an integrated network of more than 90 employee-owned companies plus many worker cooperatives, is the best-known example of worker cooperatives in the world. On December 15, the worker-owners of two of its largest member cooperatives voted to separate from the network, as reported in several articles, such as this one in El Pais.
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The NCEO Is Hiring a Director of Education
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London Launches Employee Ownership Initiative
On December 2, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced the creation of the London Ownership Hub, which will launch in early 2023 with the goal of creating "the networks, resources and conditions to help worker co-operative and employee-owned businesses across London develop and thrive." London contains nearly 500 employee owned businesses, 30% of the total in the UK, and the sector proved resilient through the pandemic.
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NCEO Board of Directors: Now Accepting Nominations
Annual elections for our board of directors will take place in January, and members in good standing are invited to nominate themselves or other members during the nomination window, from now until December 21.
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Employee Ownership Trusts in the News
The November 30 article Through ‘ownership trusts,’ investors can help employees become owners and owners retire on Impact Alpha's website focused on the employee ownership trust (EOT) as a new model of employee ownership in the U.S. Although EOTs are the primary form of employee ownership in the UK, they are relatively new in the U.S.
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An Invitation to ESOP Company CEOs: Join the 2023 ESOP CEO Network
“The NCEO CEO Network provided a ready-made network of peers from other ESOP companies. I learned more during our discussions on governance, culture, and other issues unique to ESOPs than I did from hours and hours of reading.”