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Worker Cooperatives Share The Wealth
The idea of sharing the profits of a company equally among its workers may seem like a radical idea in a country based on the capitalist inverted triangle of profit distribution. Conversely, all of the employees in a cooperative business have equal value and tend to be happier and more productive since they are all […]
In: Business Stories · Tagged with: 19th Century England, Artisans, Average Salary, Business Decisions, Cooperative Business, Corporate Model, Equal Share, Petaluma California, Plight, Principals, Profit Distribution, Quality Of Life, Radical Idea, Salaries, Salary Information, Skilled Workers, Spokes, Stake, Street Bakery, Worker Cooperatives
Proposed Federal Wage Freeze
As the federal deficit begins to approach $14 Trillion dollars, new proposals are underway to reduce government spending. The latest being considered is a freeze on government employee wages for the next two years. The average annual government employee salary is now over $80,000 dollars as compared to just slightly over $50,000 dollars for private […]
In: Business Stories · Tagged with: Billion Dollars, Budget, Employee Salary, Employee Wages, Federal Deficit, Federal Employees, Federal Jobs, Federal Proposal, Federal Wages, Financial Health, Government Employee, Government Employees, Gum, Painful Sacrifice, Private Sector Employees, Proposals, Salary Information, Trillion, Wage Freeze
A Tale of Two CEO’s
This year Lola Gonzalez, CEO of Accurate Background Check of Ocala Florida had a difficult decision to make. After crunching the numbers for her business, she determined that she would need to layoff one of her 8 person staff. In a company employee meeting, she dropped the bombshell news that someone would have to be […]
In: Business Stories · Tagged with: Accurate Background, Background Check, Bombshell, Ceo, Ceo Salaries, Company Staff, Corporate Layoffs, Difficult Decision, job, jobs, Johnson And Johnson, Lead, Led, Lola Gonzalez, Million Dollars, Ocala Florida, Person Staff, Salary Information, Staff Meeting, Surprise, William Weldon
