Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Chrysler and Employee Ownership?

For the first time since the economic challenges hit the world, official Washington is looking to employee ownership in a unique form at Chrysler and GM -- employees will have a stake in the company.   This is good news and bad news.   Good news in that it shows a psychological and philosophical acceptance of employee ownership in some form as the desired outcome under certain circumstances.   Bad news in that it is not an ESOP. And, like many of the ownership schemes...

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

What blogs are you reading?

According to Technorati (www.technorati.com) a website that tracks blogs, there are over 8 million blogs out there and more are being created each day.   We have a few favorites but we wanted to know what you’re reading. Let us know. Drop us a comment with a link to your favorite blogs.   A few on our reading list:   The Wall Street Journal’s Independent Street - http://blogs.wsj.com/independentstreet/ Community-Wealth.org - http://www.community-wealth.org/blog/index.php One-Stop...

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The ESOP Association Announces 2009 Silver ESOP Award Winners

  The following release was sent out by The ESOP Association this morning.  For Immediate Release: April 15, 2009 For More Information: Amy Gwiazdowski, 202/293-2971, amy@esopassociation.org   The ESOP Association Announces 2009 Silver ESOP Award Winners   April 15, 2009 (Washington, DC) – The ESOP Association has presented 12 corporate members of the Association with a Silver ESOP Award to recognize their work in sustaining their ESOP (employee stock ownership...

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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Congratulations to the 2009 AACE Award Winners

  While the AACE (Annual Awards for Communications Excellence) Awards are primarily an ESOP Association program, we did want to take a minute to congratulate this year’s winners on a job well done.    Category 1-A, Total Communications Program, 100 or fewer employees Winner: Nobis Engineering Inc. www.nobisengineering.com       Runner Up: The Onyx Group www.onyxgroup.com   Category 1-B, Total Communications Program, 101 - 500 employees Winner:...

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