Nice piece in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal on the AFL-CIO’s Bill Patterson and the continuing efforts to pressure Wall Street firms to get out of the pro-privatization movement: Social Security Change Faces Labor Muscle AFL-CIO Investment Official Uses Heft of Pension Assets To Influence Wall Street’s Views By JEANNE CUMMINGS Staff Reporter of THE WALL […]
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Pension Power and China
Posted on 11 March 2005.
Pension power and China on my mind this morning. On pension, kudos to Bill Patterson and his band of pension-fund activists at the AFL-CIO. They forced Waddell & Reed, a Kansas-based financial services firm, to pull out of the business-funded (ready for an Orwellian-sounding title) Alliance for Worker Retirement Security (AWRS), the coalition pouring millions […]
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