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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: EFES: Re: a RISES contribution to the European Commission on Employee Ownership
Dear Erik! I bear in mind to order your book since I heard about it and you told me some over it. Be sure, from DEZAP comes an order! Best regards to your wife and you! Bozo, Slovenia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Maaløe" <erm@asb.dk> To: <efes@cog.kent.edu> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 1:39 PM Subject: RE: EFES: Re: a RISES contribution to the European Commission on Employee Ownership 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 > ---------- > 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 > > _____ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > >
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