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Source: AFSCME Council 5 Stepping Up, Jan/Feb 2010

Workers at Chris Jensen nursing home in Duluth don't need economists or politicians to tell them what privatization means. Peterson is one of more than 200 caregivers coping with the upheaval St. Louis County created when it sold the nursing home. Under county management, workers had a strong union contract as part of Local 66. On Nov. 1, it all vanished.

Source; By ELIZABETH COOPER, Observer-Dispatch (NY) Feb 08, 2009 @ 11:56 PM


Oneida County's public health clinic and Women Infants and Children nutrition program are being scrutinized as the county tries to find ways to cut costs in the deepening national economic crisis.

The plan is to look at the possibility of contracting out the services those entities provide.

Source: BY SID CASSESE, Newsday (NY),  10:17 PM EST, February 8, 2009

Adding to his already combative relationship with county worker unions, County Executive Thomas Suozzi said he is considering privatizing Nassau's three sewage treatment plants and the police department's emergency ambulance bureau.

Tucked into the tail end of a report Suozzi made to the Nassau Interim Finance Authority last week, under "Other Opportunities," Suozzi said privatization in the two areas could save taxpayers "millions of dollars a year in direct labor costs and tens of millions in capital expenditures."