Tag Archives: worker ownership

Zingerman’s to explore cooperative structure and shared employee ownership

By Mark | June 18, 2014

Over the past several months, I’d heard from a few reputable sources that the folks at Zingerman’s were exploring the possibility of transitioning to a business model in which their 600-some employees would share ownership to some degree. And, a few weeks ago, when I’d heard that an unknown person had edited the company’s Wikipedia […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, entrepreneurism, Food, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ari Weinzweig, business models, co-ops, Paul Saginaw, Zingerman's, Zingerman's Community of Businesses | 29 Comments

Everything is pointing toward a Bernie Sanders presidential campaign… And only Elizabeth Warren can stop it

By Mark | December 17, 2013

For the past several weeks, one of my favorite people, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, has been publicly floating the idea that, if no other strong progressives, like Elizabeth Warren, come forward to announce a run for the presidency in 2016, he’d consider doing it himself. Someone, according to Sanders, needs to address the collapse of […]