The owners of the corporation ( which ties them to the private property rights on the earnings of their productive capital and workers) elect and/or appoint a Board of Directors, who in turn hire a CEO at an agreed compensation rate. The CEO in turn sets the salary and wage levels of everyone else below him or her.

The reality is that because corporate America is owned narrowly by a relative few individuals (90 percent of the securities are owned by less than 10 percent of the population, which means that a large majority of the population––essentially everyone who presently does not possess significant productive capital assets––is not an OWNER)

The impact of expanding and broadening ownership of FUTURE productive capital assets (held by our corporations) would be beneficial in creating a more democratic structure of corporate ownership whereby income differences are far less unjust.

As corporation become more democratic they can operate under the principles of Justice-Base Management.

What Is Justice-Based Management?

Justice-Based ManagementSM (JBMSM) is a leadership philosophy and management system that applies universal principles of economic and social justice within business organizations. The ultimate purpose of JBMSM is to create and sustain ownership cultures that enhance the dignity and development of every member of the company, and to economically empower each person as an owner and worker.

JBMSM promotes a company’s long-term profitability within the global marketplace by enabling all worker-owners to serve and provide higher value to the customer. JBMSM connects every worker’s self-interest to the bottom-line and long-term success of the company.

The JBMSM process builds upon a written articulation of the philosophy and principles of the company’s leader (typically the CEO or chairman of the board) and leadership core group, in terms of universal principles and core values of the company. JBMSM proceeds in stages to build a consensus upon these fundamental shared values and vision of the company within each work area of the company.

These articulated values provide the foundation for enhancing the productiveness of workers and company profitability, and include such structures as employee-monitored economic incentive programs, participation and governance structures, two-way communications and accountability systems, conflict management systems and future planning and renewal programs.

The ESOP and Justice-Based ManagementSM

One of the main components of JBMSM is the "empowerment ESOP ." While the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) was originally invented as a means for providing working people with access to capital credit to become owners of corporate equity, most ESOPs are set up as just another employee benefit plan or tax gimmick, or as an employee share accumulation plan (“ESAP”). Most ESOPs today are not designed to treat worker-owners as first-class shareholders. The “empowerment ESOP,” on the other hand, is designed to encourage workers to assume the responsibilities and risks, as well as the full rights, rewards and powers, of co-ownership.

Furthermore, all academic and government studies to date have concluded that ESOPs alone are not enough to affect individual and corporate performance. Within a JBMSM system, in combination with a regular gainsharing program tied to bottom-line profits, and structured systems of participatory management, the empowerment ESOP stimulates everyone in the company to think and act like entrepreneurs and owners.

Balancing Moral Values and Material Value

Justice-Based ManagementSM offers an ethical framework for succeeding in business. JBM balances moral values (treating people with fairness and dignity) with material value (increasing a company's productiveness and profits while enriching all members of a productive enterprise). JBM's three basic operating principles are:

1. Build the organization on shared ethical values—starting with respect for the dignity and worth of each person (employee, customer and supplier)—that promote the development and empowerment of every member of the group.

2. Succeed in the marketplace by delivering maximum value (higher quality at lower prices) to the customer.

3. Reward people commensurate with the value they contribute to the company—as individuals and as a team.

Justice-Based ManagementSM is guided by the concept of social justice, as articulated by the late social philosopher William Ferree, SM. Social justice involves the structuring of social organizations or institutions (including business corporations) to promote and develop the full potential of every member.

JBM also embeds within an ownership culture the three principles of economic justice defined by the late lawyer-economist Louis Kelso and philosopher Mortimer Adler: (1) “participative justice,” or the right to the means and opportunity to participate in the economic process as an owner as well as a worker; (2) “distributive justice,” or the right to the full, market-determined stream of income from one’s labor and capital contributions; and (3) “harmony” (or social justice), or the right and responsibility of each person to work in an organized way with others to correct the “social order” or institution when the principles of participative or distributive justice are being violated or blocked.

Within JBMSM the principles of social and economic justice provide a logical framework for defining “fairness” and structuring the diffusion of power within the corporation.

Structuring Ownership Participation

JBM is designed to systematize and institutionalize shared rights, responsibilities, risks and rewards within all company operational and governance structures involving:

• Corporate values and vision
• Leadership development and succession
• Corporate governance and future planning
• Operations (policies and procedures) and hardship sharing policies
• Communications and information sharing
• Training and education
• Pay and rewards
• Grievances and adjudication

A well-designed Justice-Based ManagementSM system sharpens and crystallizes the leader's philosophy around “universal” principles, providing a solid foundation for a corporate culture that enables people to internalize these guiding principles. JBMSM generates organizational synergy by connecting each worker-owner to the financial tools of ownership (i.e. ESOP and profit sharing), participative management systems, and a defined share of power in the governance of the organization. This in turn enables people to make better decisions, discipline their own behavior, and work together more effectively and cooperatively—because it is truly in their self-interest to do so.

http://www.cesj.org/jbm/whatisjbm.htm

The income disparity between workers and the executives is offensive. Nowhere else in the world does this kind of pay disparity exist. This is why I am all for a return to the personal tax rate of 70% that Reagan eliminated as the same time he created a massive federal deficit.

Having said that, one thing I have lenred from working in a country that has a lot of union control is that the workers are not nearly as productive as those in states where job security is non existent. So that begs the question of whether "workers rights" realy serves an economy versus the drive of capitalism. I am a capitalist, but with strong socialist tendencies in that the greater benefit of the society serves to preserve, protect and encourage a healthy existence.

Our system is fundamentally broken and in 20 years the US will have experienced the greatest collapse of modern history. We are reliving the rise and fall of Rome, albeit in a more compressed timescale.

Thank you Stonesphear for mentioning Jesus and the swine! Joseph Atwill wrote a book and talks about that...among other things.

Quote some long lost blog on Joseph Atwill's book Caesar's Messiah:

..on the parallels of Jesus, and other stories in the New Testament, to Titus and the Romans....

Atwill offers the case of the Gadarene demoniac as one example [of a parallel]. Jesus goes to Gadara and orders "Legion" out of the man. The Legion of demons enters a group of two thousand swine, who then plunge into the sea and drown. Forty years later, Titus leads a campaign in the same area and drives two thousand Jewish rebels to drown in the sea. He notes that in Josephus's account of all that is taken when the Romans plunder Gadara, "No swine are mentioned."

This, he declares, is because the "Swine" are actually the Jewish Rebels. Of course, if there were a Real Jesus, who really did drive two thousand swine into the sea, there simply might not be any pigs left in the region.

Consider also that War of the Jews contains an account of a woman, Mary the Daughter of Eleazar/Lazarus, who, during the siege of Jerusalem roasts and devours her own son. This is held in comparison to Jesus, son of Mary, instituting the Last Supper with the command to eat his own flesh and blood.

Atwill asserts that Jesus' supposed ministry exactly mirrors the campaign of Titus in War of the Jews, and that the record of the former is meant to be a satire of the latter, a mockery of the messianic Jews - I think.

He also argues that the prophecies of the NT were actually invented by Josephus to be "predicted," and then "fulfilled" by Titus in the War of the Jews. The prophecy that (paraphrasing here) Jerusalem would be destroyed in one generation (40 years) is of course fulfilled by Titus.

According to Atwill, the Romans' solution to these problems was to create a special kind of post-war propaganda. They called it in Greek evangelion, a technical term meaning "good news of military victory." In English, it is translated as "gospel." The name is in fact ironic humor: the Romans were amusing themselves with the notion of making the Jews accept, as the actions of the Messiah Jesus, what were in fact literary echoes of the very battles in which the Romans had defeated the Jews' armies. A further joke was buried in unmistakable parallels between the life of Jesus and that of Titus: in worshiping Jesus, the Jews who adopted Christianity, as it came to be called, were in fact hailing the Emperor of their conquerors as god.

Professor Robert Eisenman of California State University describes Atwill's research as rendering contemporary Christian scholarship so challenged that it is now "looking into the abyss". It is worth noting, in this regard, that the general scholarly consensus that there was a historical, Jewish Jesus is itself largely a recent historical idea, traceable to Abraham Geiger in the 1860's. He persuaded scholars that the Gospels were an account of a historical Jewish Jesus, a typical Pharisee of his day. Since then this view, and with it the notion of Christianity as a development of Judaism, has become the dominant paradigm in Christianity. However, as the new discoveries in Caesar's Messiah make clear, this is not just misleading, but a dangerous concession to a false system of belief. The Romans created this new religion deliberately to humiliate the Jews and to keep them in submission. For contemporary Jewish scholars to collude with this Roman literary invention, and to even pretend that this fictional character had historic reality, is the height of irony.

It is one thing for Christians to use works of literature as their sacred documents. It is quite another for them to continue using what have now been discovered to be deliberate Roman fakes about a non existent Messiah.

but you can watch video interviews of Joseph Atwill on his book here:
http://www.rodephemet.org/welcome.html

"If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs." And Jesus sent them forth running in fear of his righteousness into their industrialized herd of swine and at this the hapless swine stampeded and drowned in the nearby waters. Problem solved, So much for that outbreak of Swine Flue long ago .

The Twain Report
All The News That Mark Twain Says He Would Report If He Was Alive Today
5-01-2013
In Kentucky the other day, a five year old boy was given a rifle for a present. He then shot and killed his three year old sister.

At a press conference around the cracker barrel at the general store, the boy's uncle was asked how the family had responded to the killing. He said, "Boy howdy, I can tell you one young man who did not get a second helping of apple pie after dinner that day! And I myself told him, 'Boy, when we say keep it in the family, we're talkin' about sex, not about shootin' each other. Here, get your gun and we'll take a walk around the neighborhood. I'll show you the people you can shoot."

The National Rifle Association sent the boy a free subscription to American Rifleman, and NRA president Wayne LaPierre visited the family, saying, "Son, it's obvious you have a bright and shining future ahead of you, and we at the NRA want to help you in any way we can. You want an assault gun and fifty pounds of ammo, just say the word and I'll dip into my discretionary fund and buy them for you. Of course, after you are old enough to read you might consider taking a gun safety course, but there will be plenty of time for that later. Here, have a complimentary box of hollow-point ammo and a drink of whiskey."

In our weekly seance at Twain Report Headquarters in a heavily fortified bunker under a homeless shelter in Seattle, Mr. Twain possessed the body of our janitor and said, "This puts me in mind of the not-infrequent occasions on which I was chased out of town at gunpoint over stories I published in newspapers. I particularly favored my story about how the local church ladies were holding a bake sale with the proceeds going to support the noble cause of inter-racial marriage."

Mr. LaPierre responded, "Why yes, Mr. Twain, I believe that my grand-daddy himself shot at you about that one. I loved my grand-daddy."

Pulling out a gun, Mr. LaPierre said, "Would you mind if I took at few shots at you right now, just for old times sake?"

At which point the Twain Report janitor ripped off his fake sideburns and white hat, and yelled, "Hey, I was just pretending to be possessed by that Twain cobron! I'm a lifetime member of the NRA! I was on the death squads in Peru!"

See tomorrow's edition for a truly embarrassing story on how the entire staff of the renowned Twain Report was hoaxed by an illiterate illegal immigrant right-wing mole.

It's May Day! MAY DAY - MAY DAY - MAY DAY - the ship of state is sinking!

Well, there is another company to boycott..JC PENNEY! Let's make the capitalist pigs squeal...not with delite...but in agony! Just like pigs squeal when they are castrated..yes, I knew someone who had a pig farm, when I was a kid, and assisted once in castrating little pigs.

viva la revolucion! People are out demonstrating all over the world today...now if they can only do unto the capitalist pigs what the capitalist pigs have done to other countries that refused to be their useful idiots...boycott, boycott, boycott! Start with JC PENNY!

Now that is fuck'in funny!!!

In our state there rules seem to be followed since industries must pay into the state's labor and industries insurance that pays compensation if workers are injured on the job. However we are still a fairly strong union state, which sets a higher standard here.

Waiting around for government to come to its senses doesn't seem to be working. We need to do what we can on our own. I believe we would do better to support and encourage more co-op type industries as they're the best way around union busting politics.

Find info at: usworker.coop

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