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Private equity and real estate giant the Blackstone Group launched fundraising a year ago for Blackstone Capital Partners IX, its next flagship buyout fund, seeking to raise as much as $30 billion.[1] Yet Blackstone’s most recent quarterly…
Some of private equity firm Blackstone’s largest investors have increased scrutiny of the private equity firm after Blackstone-owned slaughterhouse cleaning company Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI) in February paid a $1.5 million US Department of Labor (DOL) fine for “oppressive…
Sycamore Partners has ignored multiple messages since November 2022 from Private Equity Stakeholder Project and worker organizations requesting a meeting to discuss how they can improve conditions for the workers they employ and those in their supply chain.
The Lever reported on how public officials have been using the retirement savings of unionized teachers, firefighters, and police officers to capitalize — and help Wall Street executives profit from — an outsourcing business that has used low-paid immigrants…
The Department of Labor (DOL) has recently launched investigations into at least two private equity-owned companies that have employed children in dangerous working conditions: Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI), owned by Blackstone, and Hearthside Food Solutions, owned by Charlesbank Capital and…
Workers from the Refresco bottling plant in Wharton, NJ, attempted to bring their concerns about conditions in their plant to the corporate headquarters of private equity firm KKR today. It was the second attempt…
In coalition with more than 20 other organizations, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) sent an investor letter to private equity firm Blackstone Friday, February…
PESP sent an alert in December detailing how Sycamore Partners’ strategy has hurt workers and generated poor returns for investors. Since November, Sycamore Partners has ignored multiple messages requesting a meeting to discuss how it can improve…
Click here to sign on to PESP’s platform for Labor Rights. Download a copy of our Labor Rights platform here. The private equity industry must correct its course and improve its treatment of workers. Focused on…
We stand in strong opposition to Atlanta’s Cop City and the violent tactics Atlanta-area law enforcement took against protesters of the environmentally-hazardous training facility. The killing of 26-year-old activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán…
Private equity firm Cerberus Capital management is providing the world with yet another example of how the past year’s record inflation has been largely caused by corporate greed and excessive profits. On January 17, the Washington…
Private equity firms and the companies they own come in contact with students, teachers, administrators, and families in a variety of ways in the education sector. With the power to create educational content and administer tests, hire school staff, manage…
