The statement I was replying to from Zvi: "Yes, Mike, exactly what you are saying. The existing situation, the members has no Property shares in their ...
The internal capital accounts ARE the same thing as the valuation of the stock (i.e. equity). MM ... From: "Warner, Kristopher" <kristopher.warner@...> ...
Hello: When you are in the workerownedcoop site in Yahoo you will notice a box on the upper left hand side. The LINKS section is the 7th one down. There are...
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Hello Everyone: I've just uploaded my latest revised version of "The Essential Characteristics of a Worker Cooperative." I want to thank David Chilcott and...
William, I have a couple of comments. I think the governance of a cooperative depends greatly on its size. And since I think the size should generally be...
Without reading your new paper, yet, I would like to put emphasize on your statement below ... If I understand correctly your assumption, I can't agree with...
Just wanted to chime in about know who's on this list. I work for Electric Embers (http://electricembers.net/), a worker-owned coop in the San Francisco Bay...
So let me ask you this: after 20 years of working in a success worker cooperative, you decide to retire. How much do you sell the stock back to the worker...
Steve from Collective Copies here, In our collective and, I believe, with Industrial Cooperative Association style bylaws in general, the par value of stock...
Your model works if you set up your company to never grow in value and always distribute profits as dividends in effect. That leaves you no reserve for savings...
I frankly don't care if the company doesn't grow in value if the workerowners are making good salaries with 100% medical coverage, life insurance, short and...
Hello: I'm really enjoying the dialog on this list. I am gaining a lot of insight and clarity as a result of participating in this group. I want to give credit...
Hey, whatever works, cool. If everyone gets their share each year and they're happy, that's fine. You said you accumulate retained earnings though. I'd read ...
Okay. FINALLY, someday else understands. (This has been such a frustrating converstation that should have been VERY SIMPLE....): "In our collective and, I...
There are many different ways to do it. One way, is to have the value of stock reflect increases in capitalization (i.e. retained earnings). MM ... From:...
"Your model works if you set up your company to never grow in value and always distribute profits as dividends in effect. That leaves you no reserve for ...
I recommend the book by Anton Pannekoef, "Worker Councils." It goes far beyond the microeconomics of individual worker cooperatives, and into what the...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the workerownedcoop group: My worker co-op status is: o Currently in a functioning worker co-op o...
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Does anybody else ever wonder about the effectiveness of email groups? For example, the recent poll "My co-op status..." ellicited 9 responses from the 149...
I too, have noticed that the current poll is not getting much response. Perhaps it is due to the questions that are asked on this particular poll. I propose...
William, IMO it's not a problem with the poll. I think that email groups are probably just not a very effective way to build communities. People may just be...
I mentioned earlier that I will sync this group to a forum soon: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/workerownedcoop/message/319 I hope to have this ready by...
Thanks, Franklin. I look forward to joining it when it is up and running. An ezboard forum that I frequent had a poll started today that received 18...
Sometimes I wonder if maybe Yahoo pads the discussion group with fake members to make us feel that the group is bigger (thus, worthwhile). Also, they could be...