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October 21 Webinar: Workers Challenging Private Equity to Create Good Jobs
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project and the Cornell ILR Worker Institute invite you to an online forum on Thursday, October 21 from 1-2:30 p.m. ET. At this online forum you will hear from workers employed by private equity-owned…
Private Equity Health Care Acquisitions – August 2021
In light of the growing investor interest in health care and the risks associated with private equity ownership of health care companies, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project will be tracking private equity-backed health care acquisitions. Below is a list…
The American Prospect: Private Equity’s Potential Payday From Build Back Better
The American Prospect reported on how private equity is entrenched in the home health and hospice industries, citing figures provided by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project that show two dozen private equity companies employing more than 233,000 workers. Additionally, “the…
Labor Day 2021: With More Than 11 Million U.S. Employees, Private Equity Must Take Responsibility for Its Workforce
Private equity firms have often taken a low road approach and sought to reduce wages, benefits, and staffing at firms they acquire – with devastating consequences to thousands of workers, their families and their entire communities. The private equity industry…
Report by The University of Washington’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies: Private Equity’s Fossil Fuel Assets Exposes Pension Funds and Marginalized Communities to Investment and Climate Risks
The University of Washington’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies has released a report exploring private equity’s impacts on the climate and marginalized communities, while using public pension fund capital. As a major private equity investor, public pension funds…
Employees of Private Equity-Owned Freddy’s Walk Off the Job for the Third Time to Demand COVID Safety
Workers at Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers— a Kansas-based franchisor of fast-casual restaurants with stores in more than 30 states — struck for the third time in the past year over COVID safety concerns. Private equity firm Thompson Street…
NPR Reports on Private Equity Acquiring Mobile Home Parks and Rendering Them Unaffordable to Homeowners Who Live There
Earlier this month NPR’s Planet Money investigated what happens when big investors like private equity firms spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying mobile home parks and make them less affordable for the people who live there. NPR, August 6,…