Sharing the wealth: The push for workers to buy the companies that employ them
(WorldNews Business)

Click here if you are having trouble viewing the video on your mobile device. Carolyn Berke knows the challenges of owning a food business in the Bay Area. As the owner of Union City-based Niles Pie Company for several years — and having owned and worked in bakeries on the East Coast — she’s experienced some of the industry’s long-standing challenges: a struggle to find and keep employees in what is notoriously a high-turnover, low-wage profession, and the challenge of growing a business in a high-cost region. As of recently, however, Berke’s not handling the challenges of business ownership alone. Her employees are now owners themselves, since Niles Pie Company...