On December 7, 2012, Andrea Chang and Chris O’Brien write in the Los Angeles Times that CEO Tim Cook has made a pledge as Apple faces increasing criticism for working conditions in overseas manufacturing facilities run by its suppliers.
People Power works! The next step is to rally support for employee ownership of Apple.
Sign the Petition at http://signon.org/sign/reform-the-federal-reserve.fb23?source=c.fb&r_by=3904687
Sign the WhiteHouse.gov petition athttps://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reform-federal-reserve/PhY3Jswk
Apple should make the entire product line of Macs in the United States and initiate an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) to extend ownership to Apple employees. As a start Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured exclusively in the United States beginning in 2013, making the comments during an exclusive interview with Brian Williams airing tonight at 10pm/9pm Central on NBC’s “Rock Center.” Mac fans will have to wait to see which Mac line it will be because Apple, widely known for its secrecy, left it vague.
The Just Third Way system is available under present Federal laws encouraging ESOPs, but it is limited to workers in the for-profit private sector. We now want to get the same changes to the tax, financing and inheritance systems for enabling every man, woman and child in America to become owners through capital credit for buying new capital growth shares in the private sector that would be repaid with the earnings of the new productive assets (“future savings”) represented by those shares. Today over 11 million workers have become owners without requiring them to reduce their consumption to buy the new shares. That helps grow the wealth-producing economy. We now want to do the same for 310 million citizens, including the disabled, to make the free enterprise economy grow faster without inflation, create millions of new growth jobs, and radically shrink the economic power of government and the need under the current system for government to redistribute incomes and wealth of current owners.
Support the Capital Homestead Act athttp://www.cesj.org/homestead/index.htm andhttp://www.cesj.org/homestead/summary-cha.htm
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-apple-manufacturing-20121207,0,2720461.story
