Category: Privatization
- 05/10/11 School Privatization Conference Draws Hundreds of Protesters Attendees gathered in DC to discuss replacing the public education system with a voucher program.
- 05/04/11 Prison Corporations are ‘Making a Killing’ New report details corruption, increased cases of violence and death at for-profit facilities.
- 05/02/11 USDA Tells Walker: Don’t Privatize Food Assistance Program! The federal government notifies Wisconsin that privatizing the FoodShare program would violate the law.
- 03/30/11 Just Say No to SB 5 Today, the Ohio state House is set to vote on Senate Bill 5 (SB 5), a bill that would strip collective bargaining rights from 350,000 public service workers in the state. SB 5 is one of the cornerstones in Gov. John Kasich’s plan.
- 03/24/11 Maine Gov. Attacks Workers, Erases History Maine Tea Party Gov. Paul LePage (R) has ordered the removal of a 36-foot mural depicting Maine’s labor history from the lobby of the state’s Department of Labor offices, claiming they received “some complaints”
- 12/23/10 Guide to Talking Unions This Holiday Season It's easy to tune out misinformation about unions and the workers who make them strong when you hear it on the news, but what should you do this holiday season when the same misinformation comes from your friends and family?
- 09/24/10 The GOP’s Bizarre and Cynical “Pledge to America” One can only marvel at the extreme cynicism evident in the Republican Party's bizarre 21-page "Pledge to America." The document is only the tip of the iceberg and masks the real agenda of Republican leaders.
- 06/03/09 Privatization is a Dirty Word Privatization has become a dirty word. And for good reason. Imagine where we would be today if George W. Bush had gotten his way and gambled away our Social Security on the stock market.
- 03/10/09 Obama Takes on Contracting Abuses Last week, President Obama ordered new guidelines for contracting in federal agencies. In a memorandum sent to the heads of all executive departments and agencies, he ordered a government-wide review of federal contracting procedures.
- 02/19/09 Audit Reveals Abuse in Highway Contracting Some contractors who design and build the nation’s highways wrongly charged taxpayers $73 million for ballooning executive compensation, lavish perks and other unallowable expenses, according to an article by Robert O’Harrow Jr. in the Washington Post.
