Labor Links: Privatization

• AFSCME Privatization Update
• AFSCME Issues: Privatization
• In the Public Interest
• Center for Media and Democracy
  • Outsourcing America Exposed -- includes corporate profiles of major companies involved in outsourcing
  • EXPOSED: America's Highest Paid Government Workers*: They Aren't Who You Thing They Are -- compensation information for the CEOs of top companies involved in outsourcing.

Additional Research Databases:

• Project on Government Oversight's Federal Contractor Misconduct Database
• OMB Watch: FedSpending.org
• USAspending.gov
• System for Award Management (includes the General Services Administration's Excluded Party List)
• US Health & Human Services List of Excluded Individuals/Entities
• Federal Procurement Data System
• Center for Public Integrity
• Public Services International Research Unit Company Profiles

Other Privatization Resources

• Wikipedia entry: Privatization
• Canadian Union of Public Employees Privatization Issue Page
• Why Privatizing Government Services Would Hurt Women Workers — IWPR, PDF format
• Restructuring Local Government — includes large section on privatization nationally and in New York state
• Your Tax Dollars at Work...Offshore: How Foreign Outsourcing Firms are Capturing State Government Contracts — Good Jobs First

• World Bank Privatization Database - info on privatization contracts >$1 million in developing countries from 2000 to 2005
• Reason Foundation - Privatization Issue Area and Privatization Watch
• Mackinac Center for Public Policy - Michigan Privatization Report
• Mackinac Center for Public Policy - Michigan School Privatization Survey (2013)

Sector Privatization

• The Water Barons — Center for Public Integrity

• Child Welfare Information Gateway: Privatization

• Labor Links: Prison Privatization

See also In the Public Interest's Privatization by Sector page. Sectors include Administration and Finance, Defense, Education and School Services, Health and Human Services, Information Technology, Municipal Services, Prisons, Detention and Public Safety, Public Buildings and Property, Recreational Resources and Parks, Transportation Infrastructure, and Water and Sewer.

Is the contractor a nonprofit? Search for 990 filings at:

• Guidestar
• Economic Research Institute
• Foundation Center - 990 Finder

State Government databases for tracking expenditures and/or contracts

• Propublica - State Spending Trackers (both transparency & stimulus)

Last checked: 9/10/2014