Average annual spending increases are below the 6.9 percent average of the last 19 years. Corporations and their political supporters offer the public false promises of lower costs and better service. With all the money at stake in these deals it is no wonder that privatization often results in waste, fraud, graft and poor service. The Growth of Privatization Share of public services handled by contract workers. We fight these battles at every level of the union.
Locals lobby town councils to preserve jobs.
Councils intervene with state legislators to keep public services out of private hands. The International intervenes at the highest national level to stop privatization. In the last year, the International helped to defeat major privatization efforts in state employment services, Medicaid and Food Stamps, among other programs. Often, when public work has been contracted out, we have been able to follow the work to preserve union protections for privatized workers. Workers, their families and communities should not pay the price for the folly of privatization.