RE: EFES: Re: a RISES contribution to the European Commission on Employee Ownership

[Erik Maaløe <erm@asb.dk>]

Dear Bozo
LET US ALL UNITE


 <<Adv for EO.doc>> 
Erik Maaloe, dr merc
Institute for Organization
Aarhus Business School
Fulglesangs Alle 4
8210 Aarhus / Denmark


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> From:         bozo.lednik@siol.net
> Reply To:     efes@cog.kent.edu
> Sent:         søndag 28. oktober 2001 9:24
> To:   efes@cog.kent.edu
> Subject:      EFES: Re: a RISES contribution to the European Commission on
> Employee Ownership
> 
>         
> 
>       Dear Bill!
> 
>       I can't help to express my pleasure and respect when I read your
> letter addressed to Marc.
> 
>       Transition country like Slovenia, is restoring its economy and
> putting  it on the track and in line with EU . But more we adopt  the
> common rules more discrepancies that are immanent to the new system we
> built in.
> 
>       Our association  DEZAP ( Employee shareholders ) is promoting,
> supporting and spreading the employee share ownership in Slovenia and
> therefore are your experience and your endeavour  to make more people
> "capitalists" encouraging and valuable for us too. I hope you will stay in
> touch with EFES and that we shall hear from you more.
> 
>       Kind regards!
> 
>       Bozo Lednik,DEZAP, Slovenia
> 
>        
>       ----- Original Message ----- 
>       From: william bishop 
>       To: EFES@cog.kent.edu 
>       Cc: Hamud.Mohamoud@mayo.edu 
>       Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 2:54 PM
>       Subject: EFES: a RISES contribution to the European Commission on
> Employee Ownership
> 
>       Dear Mr. Mathieu;
>        
>       My name is Bill Bishop, and I have been a friend and supporter of
> ESOPS since my friendship with Louis Kelso in the middle 60's.
>       I notice that you are the Secretary-General of the European
> Federation of Employee Shareownership in Brussels, and that you have
> launched an appeal for a "wide consultation" on Employee Ownership in the
> European Union. This will result, as we all hope, in an "action plan" for
> the European Social Agenda launched at the Lisbon Summit last year by the
> Council of Ministers.
>       With a few Rochester Minnesota City leaders, I have been able to
> suggest an action plan relevant to Minnesota - and the rest of the United
> States. A few months ago, we created R.I.S.E.S. - The Rochester
> International Share Equity Society with the hope that we can do a small
> part to close the widening gap between those who own no assets - and those
> who own many. We plan to do this by teaching a unique curriculum to the
> working poor who have, at the moment, nothing but their labor to sustain
> themselves and their families. After 2 months of learning about the power
> of capital in wealth creation, we plan to help our participants organize
> themselves into investment clubs. In addition, we hope to offer them IDA's
> which, in the United States are Individual Development Accounts, a
> tripartite Government effort to help assetless citizens own significant
> assets.
>       We are not in the consultation business; I have been consulting as
> an activist, for 35 years, and am the former founder and Director of the
> Pennsylvania Capital Ownership Council in 1987, the nation's first.
> Governor Bob Casey signed our legislation permitting $4 million dollars of
> state money to be used for feasability studies for workers to consider
> buying - via ESOP - their companies. I have known, and worked with, David
> Binns, Corey Rosen and Norman Kurland, all of whom whose work I support.
>       RISES is a way for the working poor to have access to the
> information they need to become asset owners and, hopefully, prospering
> Capitalists We are not exclusive - in the sense that ESOPS are the only
> way to go. There are Co-ops and other variations on the theme. The issue
> is - as Louis Kelso put it - "The only problem with Capitalism is that it
> doesn't create enough Capitalists". We intend to work with the best and
> the brightest. We are negotiating with CITIGROUP and MERRIL-LYNCH for
> partnership and support, and we would be happy to widen our arms, as well
> as open our hearts, to like-minded people in the European Union.
>       Should you be interested in our approach, our work and our action
> plan, please let me know.
>       I am teaching at King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals in
> Saudi Arabia, but I am connected to the RISES Board members in Rochester.
> This message is being sent to the Board Chairman, Mr. M. Hamud of the Mayo
> Clinic.
>       Please let me know where to go from here.
>                                                             Sincerely,
>                                                            Bill  Bishop
> 
>   _____  
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