UMaine Labor Bureau Updates Review of Privatization Pitfalls
Contact: Bill Murphy, 581-4124; George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO — A newly released briefing paper by the University of Maine Bureau of Labor Education on the pitfalls and problems that can occur when privatizing certain state, municipal or institutional services, concludes that the practice remains risky and problematic.
The paper, “Privatization Pitfalls Update, 2008,” brings up to date an analysis of contracting out certain government or institutional services that was originally done in 1998.
“Many state and local governments, the U.S. government, and public sectors such as higher education, turned to various forms of privatizing services over the past two decades, especially during the 1990’s,” says the paper, released this week. “