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Dear EO Privers
Yes the problem is a case of ignorance (Shann Turnbull) by
the workers and their Organisations, but how do address that. The fact that they
are only interested in things that are affecting them personally at the time is
quite relevant and is in fact the case in the UK. The National Leaders were not
directly involved and so showed no initiative or interest towards EO, they say
their role as opposing Privatisation to the end and beyond. However the local
leaders who were faced with the reality Privatisation we in fact the first ones
to look at EO as a credible alliterative to the rages of raw capitalism. As
you rightly say this put them behind the employers in many cases and the Deals
were all but done before the workers became involved and able to influence
anything.
The fact is though the National Leaders have an immediate
interest, as in the UK 2.25 million workers are employee shareholders
and 350,000 of these are Union Members. Funny then that TUs promote all kinds of
other financial services for it's members like Credit Cards, Pensions, Banking
Services, etc. but totally ignore Shareholding and EO (see
attachment)
However in the UK the workers who remained in work on
the whole did alright out of the deals even if only in capital gains (reference
to Debs comments from Homesteaders) as apposed to some of the Eastern
European Counties.
Privatisation in the UK has all but come to a standstill
now, firstly because there is not much left to privatise and secondly the
political shift from the Thatcher to the Blair era and the shift in public
opinion against any further moves.
In the UK at the moment I see the movement has 3 practical
objectives.
1. To promote other sources of EO
namely Retiring Owners using the experiences and lessons of the
past
2. To get TUs to publicise and promote EO in the
light of my paper (attached) as it does with other financial
services.
3. Start winning the debate that a
company with EO (and other factors) is a better company all round than one
without EO.
Dave Wheatcroft
01246 233438
-Tel
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