Steve Dubb: What led you to write your new book—From Founder to Future: A Business Road Map to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership—and what are you hoping readers will take from it?
Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler pretty much predicted our present moment with her science-fiction opus, Parable of the Sower. The novel opens in California in 2024, and to many of today’s readers, Butler’s prescient depictions of a state ravaged by fires, extreme inequality, rising authoritarianism and corporate greed feel uncanny.
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CHICAGO, IL – Today, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), and REI Co-op announced progress on several key topics, including an agreement to establish a national bargaining structure to inform store-level collective bargaining agreements for the 11 unionized REI stores. The agreement comes after joint meetings were held July 28-30 in Chicago, Ill.
Yesenia Ochoa grew up just five blocks away from Rainbow Grocery. She remembers it as “the weird store” of her childhood; the place where her family could always find flor de jamaica and other hard-to-source ingredients.
Today, Ochoa works there. She considers the San Francisco co-op a “community center without being a community center.” Every day she runs into people from her past: Former teachers, a childhood principal.
