The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is targeting world leaders and legislators in a campaign against “special treatment and tax loopholes” benefiting private equity firms such as the tax treatment of carried interest as a capital gain.
The SEIU, which represents 1.5 million public service workers, nurses, hospital staff, nursing home care providers, building services and security guards in North America, has been joined in the campaign by non-profit organisation MoveOn.org,