Loren Rodgers
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.
Corey Rosen
Ownership: Reinventing Capitalism, Companies, and Who Owns What won the 2023 William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize for the best book of the year on shared capitalism. The award is issued by the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership at the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations.
Loren Rodgers
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Charles Chang
ESOP transactions require specific knowledge from both advisors and companies, each with unique responsibilities that compel them to act according to their duty and at the right moment. Many people with responsibility for the proper design and operation of ESOPs have never had a comprehensive overview of what they need to know to be effective in their roles – and many may not even realize that there are gaps in their knowledge. Filling in those gaps can help ESOP companies avoid pitfalls (see the NCEO's Don’t Do That! book for examples) and make good decisions from the board level to day-to-day operations.
Loren Rodgers
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.
Loren Rodgers
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.
Loren Rodgers
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.
Loren Rodgers
“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.”
Corey Rosen
Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts has signed a wide-ranging economic development legislative package that includes An Act to Enable the Massachusetts Center for Employee Ownership (S.261 / H.511), which will institutionalize the Massachusetts Center for Employee Ownership (MassCEO). The Office will be housed in the Massachusetts Office of Business Development. Much like the recently passed California Employee Ownership Act, the office will focus on outreach to business owners and serve as a resource hub for service providers and information. It will be led by a full-time director and will be able to make grants to local organizations to carry out its mission. The legislation also created a formal advisory board comprised of representatives from a number of stakeholder groups, including governor-appointed representatives from Massachusetts-based ESOP companies and worker cooperatives.
