Supported by: Bill Kidd*, Richard Lyle* *S5M-13034 Claudia Beamish: Employee Ownership Day, 29 June 2018 That the Parliament — joins members of the Employee Ownership Association to celebrate the sixth Employee Ownership Day on 29 June 2018; recognises the benefits that co-operative working brings to employees, businesses and the wider economy; notes the resilience of co-operative models with, it understands, a 65% survival rate of new co-operatives in Scotland in the first five years of business compared with 46% in non-co-operatives, and encourages employee ownership businesses to share their own success stories and raise awareness of the power of worker co- operation.