Good morning Josh,
I am forwarding your query to Don Jamison
and Patty Woods at the Vermont Employee Ownership Center (that young center hosted its first annual conference to full
attendance last week). Among others, one of the Ethan Allen Furniture
plants in NE Vermont is in the process of transferring ownership to employees. Patty
and Don may be able to provide to provide you with timely and thorough
information as to what is happening within Vermont.
Best,
Cecile Betit
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mondragon@cog.kent.edu
[mailto:owner-mondragon@cog.kent.edu] On
Behalf Of Guest g5coop
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:00
AM
To: mondragon@cog.kent.edu
Subject: Mondragon: Research for ILO
on Worker Cooperative Formation
My name is Josh Olson. I am currently
serving as an intern with Mark Levin at the Cooperative Branch of the
International Labor Organization. I have been given the assignment to do
research and write a short paper on the use of cooperative buyouts as a
mechanism for job retention for workers in investor-owned or privately
held companies.
I am looking for case studies of worker
cooperatives that have been created as the result of worker purchases of
failing non-cooperative enterprises. For the purposes of my paper, I am
interested both in both sucessful and unsucessful attempts at such conversions.
( I realize that there will be more information regarding successful
cooperatives of this nature, but information on both successes and failures
will be beneficial to my research.)
Any information, regarding studies that have
been published on this subject, details regarding particular cases of such
conversions, or even the existence of such cases (hopefully accompanied by some
contact information) would be most useful.