Posted on 01 April 2005. Tags: Labor, pension fund activism, Terry O'Sullivan
Today’s Wall Street Journal editorial (subscription required) on Social Security is the usual kooky—but extremely well-written (if only the Left had similar talents)—rant on the mythical power of “Big Labor” (did someone not yet tell the Journal writers that “Big Labor” is below 8 percent in the private sector?). But the editorial, entitled “Pension Fund […]
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Posted on 11 March 2005. Tags: "Free Trade", Bill Patterson, China, Labor, pension fund activism
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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