Owner gives business to employees

[The Man]

oh. Yeah I guess that's not very syndicalistic then

[godfry n. glad]

Now...I've been part of a business entity which was a worker-owned and operated recycling and refuse collection collective. Each of the workers was hired on as day labor. If they fit in and worked well with the rest, they were offered the opportunity to attend the weekly 'management meetings'. If they survived that and actually returned and the voting members liked them, they were given the opportunity to "buy in". This meant that their take-home pay went down. However, they did gain the opportunity to bid open jobs and pick up more work and could not be just 'terminated'. We had no labor union at all, but it is the closest I've been to 'syndicalism'....I called it collectivism....consensus collectivism.

Only two people ever cashed out of that collective. Instead, the 'state' (being the municipality) stepped in and franchised the collection of refuse in the city, requiring that the smaller of the over 200 separate haulers to coelsce to survive. Instead, as one of the 'smaller operators', the collective decided to try to become a wholesale recycleables broker...and went broker, and finally, bust. All ownership stock disappeared, including mine.

[JoeP]

Did he name it Bob's Red Mill right from the beginning? Just asking.

[Hoss]

Good man.
And this has shit to do with communism.

[freemonkey]

Originally Posted by Plant Woman

What happened here while I was gone to turn everyone into a bunch of bigots? A lot of it was done in a joking manner, but some people were serious.

I was told it had something to do with Californians coming here in the late 80's/early 90's with their California ways and Californicating the whole region. Something about real estate and spotted owls and fancy wine and croissants.

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

The truth is that most folks in the state came here from somewhere else

This is especially true in my neck of the woods. We have the temporary Navy people from all over the country, plus the retired Navy people who came back here.

[godfry n. glad]

Originally Posted by JoeP

Did he name it Bob's Red Mill right from the beginning? Just asking.

Yep.

Plenty of refined Reds around here.

[godfry n. glad]

I did note that in one interview, he stated that he had moved up to Oregon, from California, after his retirement from his milling company down there, to learn how to read Hebrew and Koine Greek, "so he could read the scriptures in their original languages".

[Gyre]

The original mill was only a few blocks from my parents house, Just south of Milwaukie in what was unincorporated Oak Grove at the time. i had been there many times before it burned. It was old and rustic and very much a converted barn. It was a sad day when it burned to the ground.

I love the new location except for the bad flow, you have to pass the check stands to get to the bulk foods and that is always a crowded space.

I am pleased that he has done this. so many of my favorite business' have sold out to corporations making them irresponsible to buy. At least this one thing is still a good thing, and considering I make my own bread weekly i would be amiss not to have a local source for organic & oddball flours.

YIPPEE FOR BOB