Employee-owners visited the Colorado legislature on March 29 to advocate for legislation that would support employee ownership. They met with legislators and agency leaders.
Employees of three rural businesses in Maine worked with the Cooperative Development Institute and the Independent Retailers Shared Services Cooperative to form a new business, the Island Employee Cooperative (IEC), which bought the three businesses from their original owners.
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.
In Roth v. Sawyer-Cleator Lumber Co. (CA 8, No. 94-3368, 7/27/95), a U.S. Court of Appeals revisited a case that has been the subject of a number of rulings. Sawyer-Cleator had an ESOP that paid departing employees over 10 years in equal installments with interest.
Round Table Pizza, a California-based chain of over 440 pizza and, more recently, sports bars, has been both one of the largest pizza restaurant chains and one of the largest employee-owned companies.
Roy Messing, who has worked at the Ohio Employee Ownership Center since 2008, became its director, effective as of July 1. Bill McIntyre, who served as director since the death of OEOC founder John Logue, will remain on staff.
