SEIU launches campaign against tax policies

The US public service union, the Service Employees International Union, has launched an international initiative to change tax laws it asserts unfairly benefit private equity firms.

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,

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