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When I sent the original message on unions and coops I was
hoping
to find out why unions had not embraced ESOPs and why
coops
had not embraced CSOPs. I was hoping to find a way to
convince
these two groups to join "the ESOP/CSOP
movement."
Now after reading Tim's message I want to change the
question.
How could we take the best union ideals and framework along
with
the best from the coop movement and merge them with the best
from the ESOP/CSOP concept? Is there common ground
between
these concepts where they could all be improved
upon?
Barry Randall
Ottawa, Ontario
I've just read Barry and Dan's contributions
re above with great interest.
I think that's an excellent discussion
point. I've wandered to myself how to make coops and esops compatible in a
meaningful, practical and significant way.
In Australia, there is a new group called
Mutuality Australia which I will try and vend in to this discussion. They
are committed to the promotion of coops and third way type
ideas.
I'm also going to forward your comments Dan
to some of the high level bureaucrats in my Department of Fair Trading. They
administer registration of coops in this state and I have prompted them to
develop some thoughts on CSOPs in light of our pending competitive
electricity and gas market at all levels including residential. They are
keen to set up a discussion group within the Department on the subject and
assuming we come up with something useful feed it in to the regulation
formation processes.
I'll keep you posted.
Cheers
Tim
Mitchell
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