Oh shit…I love Bob’s Red mill and I didn’t even realize!
Same I was buying way before I found out. They officially came under full employee ownership April of last year
I buy this shit all the time and 100% assumed the “employee owned” tag was total bullshit. This is good to hear!
But also two things to keep in mind:
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Consumer choices != politics
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Posting an article from the company website is a bit dubious. I’d be curious to hear about any criticisms.
The biggest critique I’ve heard is that stocks are not completely equitable in distribution but that’s still better than most
Stuff like this is why I think giving employees stock is a horrible way of doing employee ownership. Stocks are not equitable.
Instead of personal stock ownership the business should be owned collectively through a democratic association where every employee had a right to participate and vote at the general assembly, either by the “one man, one vote” or the “one hour of labour, one vote” principle.
that’s funny, i worked for a company that was majority employee owned and this was the case. nearly all of the stock was owned by a handful of middle managers and that ownership was not extended to “regular” employees.
This is similar to what I experienced in an ESOP. The CEO was a giant asshole and no one could apparently do anything about it because he and his key supporters apparently owned enough shares to not give a shit about the rest of the company. It was pretty far from anything resembling a workplace democracy.
And Dave’s Killer Bread focuses on hiring the previously incarcerated
Bob’s makes some dank grains. Their corn meal for polenta is great.
Not much more or cheaper than other stuff where I got it from too.
Yeah it’s great that it’s not much different in price despite being a little higher end and employee owned
