Founder of Oregon Company Leaves Business to Workers
Scores of employees gathered to help Bob Moore celebrate his 81st birthday...Moore...responded with a gift of his own -- the whole company. The Employee Stock Ownership Plan Moore unveiled means that his 209 employees now own the place and its 400 offerings of stone-ground flours, cereals and bread mixes. Read more here: http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2010/02/bobs_red_mil...
Worker Bosses?
Gee, how long-- under the whip of competition with other natural food companies-- before the worker-owners face the difficult choices of how much to cut their own wages, gut their benefits, dismantle work rules and lay-off some of the other owner-workers?