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On October 22, the PBS NewsHour's weekly economics segment (7 min., 42 sec.) focused on employee ownership, using the sale of New Belgium Brewing to its employees as an ex

On April 6 at 5PM (Pacific), Seattle's television station KCTS-9 will begin a national run of the film Shift Change, which documents the development of worker cooperatives in the United States, as well as their connections with the inspiring network of worker cooperatives in Mondragon, Spa

Public television stations around the country will run the documentary ShiftChange, a film that describes worker cooperatives in the United States and investigates the connections to the Mondragon cooperatives in the Basque region of Spain.

In General Mills v. United States, No. 06-3547 (DSD/SRN, Jan. 14, 2008), a district court granted summary judgment to the company for its use of a redemptive dividend to pay ESOP distributions. General Mills had three ESOPs operating in a single trust.

The two tax bills described above also both contain significant new restrictions on the tax treatment of all kinds of deferred compensation, including stock-based compensation.

An ESOP has purchased all but a fractional percentage of Penmac Staffing Services in Springfield, Mo. The company employs over 15,700 people, has 26 branch locations in various states, and provides administrative and professional staffing for a wide variety of companies.

The University of Pennsylvania and the Employee Ownership Foundation have announced the 2012 Leading in an Ownership Setting, a certificate program for chief executives of ESOP companies.

Thirty-six people from 28 companies attended the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership (PaCEO) on February 27 and 28 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania companies interested in learning more about ESOPs can join a meeting hosted by the Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership (PCEO) on October 16 in Pittsburgh.

Representatives from the Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership will testify before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Finance Committee on House Bill 1289 on June 19.