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Multiple examples have surfaced of companies owned by private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management spending resources on anti-union efforts instead of investing in their workforces and respecting the rights of workers to organize and collectively bargain. …
PESP researchers Valentina Dabos and Azani Creeks led a panel discussion on private equity and labor organizing at the 2023 Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) conference in Washington, DC, earlier this month. Pointing out the…
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project has released “Part 2: Challenging State Preemption of Local Affordable Housing Initiatives” as part of its Tools for Tackling Corporate Landlords report series. The series uplifts state…
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) announced that in the last few weeks, hundreds of Packers Sanitation (PSSI) workers that clean meatpacking and food processing plants across the country have joined the UFCW. The union has reached an…
PESP healthcare director Eileen O’Grady has been invited as a featured speaker at this year’s Aspen Ideas: Health conference, a multi-day event in Colorado tackling the biggest challenges in health, medicine, and science. O’Grady…
Rubenstein to leave Harvard Corp, following calls by advocates and community groups for him to resign over massive fossil fuel investments The Carlyle Group’s co-founder, billionaire David Rubenstein will step down from the Harvard Corporation’s board with six years remaining…
In light of the growing investor interest in healthcare and the risks associated with private equity ownership of healthcare companies, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project is tracking private equity-backed healthcare acquisitions. Below is a list of private equity healthcare…
Politicians in Ohio’s General Assembly are seeking to challenge corporate landlord consolidation and give Ohioans a better shot at affordable housing with new legislation. Introduced in the Ohio’s Senate Ways and Means Committee in March by Sen. Lou W. Blessing,…
Along with new reports on the climate risks private equity firms pose with their fossil fuels investments, PESP strives to be a resource to institutional investors whose capital is used to fund these energy acquisitions. The Private Equity Climate…
On May 15, 2023, KKR-owned Envision Healthcare filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.[1] Looking at the Chief Transformation Officer’s declaration filed concurrently with Envision’s bankruptcy petition, one might think that Envision was an underdog up against the Goliathan COVID-19…
A recent investigation by Vice looks at how “large corporate landlords—including private equity, real estate investment trusts and hedge funds” have begun to “put more resources into multifamily and single family homes” since the 2008 real estate crash and the…
Since December 2022, Atlanta-area officials have charged 42 people with domestic terrorism for protesting the construction of Cop City, a police training facility that would sit on 85 acres…
