Employee Ownership Blog

The NCEO’s 2019 Fall ESOP Forum has reached capacity; we cannot accept any more registrations. Our preconference session Essentials for a Sustainable ESOP is still open.

In a Labor Day statement commemorating the 100th anniversary of a social reconstruction program, a prominent U.S. Bishop calls for more employee ownership.

The Kendeda Fund, a national grant-making foundation, announced on August 26 that it would invest $24 million in four nonprofit organizations that support employee ownership.

Under the newly announced organizational structure of EBSA, units that had reported to to the deputy assistant secretary for program operations, career official Timothy Hauser, will instead report to a political appointee. 

In an August 26 editorial in the Columbia Journalism Review, Bernie Sanders said that if elected, his administration wo

In an August 18, 2019 amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in the case of Jander v.

Today, the Business Roundtable issued a statement about acting on behalf of all of its stakeholders, rather than just shareholders. Missing from their thinking is a vital question: who are the shareholders? 

A judge in the Western District of Virginia ruled that the ESOP at Sentry Equipment had overpaid for shares.

In Lee v. Argent Trust, a district court dismissed a lawsuit challenging the valuation of shares purchased by the Choate Company ESOP.

In an August 11 article, CNBC.com described employee ownership as "one of the only policies that can directly deal with the economic reality that gains in the economy have largely gone to Americans with access to stocks. ESOPs help solve that discrepancy by not only distributing profits of private companies more equally amongst workers, but also giving them more control of the company in turn."

Love in the aisles at Publix Supermarket

The August 1 edition of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the main business newspaper of Japan, included an op-ed supporting employee ownership.