Kevin Skerrett
Kevin Skerrett is a Senior Research Officer (Pensions) with the Canadian Union of Public Employees in Ottawa, and co-editor of The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism.
Taking pensions out of financial markets
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Labor unions and social movements in Brazil have been fighting a pitched battle to stop their far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, from pursuing his drive to privatize many of the country’s most important public assets. But last year they suffered a major defeat when Bolsanaro’s government sold off the nation’s largest public water utility to a…