Alternative Exit #68 | It Took a Strike To Give the Company Away | Sam Boustred, Scott Bader
am Boustred, Chair of the Global Members' Board, Scott Bader (Wollaston, UK)
Scott Bader went employee owned in 1951, 63 years before the Employee Ownership Trust existed in UK law. Founder Ernest Bader was a Quaker who did not want to share ownership. He wanted to dissolve it. So he put every share into a registered charity, the Scott Bader Commonwealth.
Sam joined the company in 2012 as a process operator on the shop floor. He is now the first person to hold the Chair of the Global Members' Board as a full time role, leading industrial democracy across a group of around 800 colleagues.
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