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Posted at 2:55pm on Jun. 4, 2008 The SEIU Takes On… the Private Equity Industry?
What... the... *#%^&#@^! ???
By blackhedd
A friend sends along this tidbit. The august New York Times is once again presenting a labor-union press release as a news story.
The Times piece is bylined Michael J. de la Merced, whom I don’t know but from his archive seems like a fairly conventional MSM business reporter.
It appears that the Service Employees International Union is going on the warpath against the global private equity industry.
But I have to admit I’m flummoxed by what this story is trying to say. As I said, the core of it is a press-release-disguised-as-news, about a set of coordinated global protests to take place in 100 cities in 25 countries next month. No, I’m not kidding, they really mean this!
Of course, the SEIU can’t organize [sic] such an undertaking on its own, so they’re partnering with two outfits with a lot of experience in the coordinated-protest business: Amnesty International and MoveOn.org.
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