A new blog (http://ownershipforall.wordpress.com/) provides an opportunity for people interested in legislation introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont to promote employee ownership.
Forbes contributor Darren Dahl sees "a growing movement in the craft brewing industry around employee ownership," and in a recent series of blogs, he interviews some of the employee-owners at New Belgium Brewing.
A June 13 Bloomberg Businessweek article,KKR Gives Industrial Gives Industrial Workers a Piece of the Action, highlights the rationale behind sharing owne
On June 30, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that data from its 2003 National Compensation Survey indicated that 11% of private industry workers "had access to stock option plans," a term the BLS defines as meeting the basic service requirements for eligibility for an award.
Blue Heron Paper in Oregon City, Oregon, is now 100% owned by its ESOP. The company is one of a small number of companies where an ESOP was used to rescue a plant from closing.
The Bureau of National Affairs (BNA), a pillar of inside-the-beltway journalism and an employee-owned company since 1947, has entered an agreement with Bloomberg, which plans to buy all of BNA's shares.
