EXCLUSIVE: 19.7 Million Finance and Insurance Workers Subject to Political Lobbying By Their Bosses

[Omaha Steve]

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/17310/19.7_million_finance_and_insurance_workers_reachable_by_bipac




Are Wall St. workers being pushed by their bosses to lobby Congress on behalf of industry interests? (Kevin Hoogheem / Flickr / Creative Commons)

BY SPENCER WOODMAN

A slideshow marked “confidential,” obtained by In These Times, sheds light on which American workers are being fed political information by their bosses in coordination with the Business-Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC).

The Washington, D.C.-based organization functions both as a PAC and a source of “tools and technologies” for businesses to “educate” their workers about political issues and candidates. Its network has exploded in recent years to encompass 7,000 businesses and trade associations across the United States, comprising 25 million—or more than one-fifth—of the nation’s private-sector employees.

The document shows that, as of last year, employees in the finance and insurance sectors accounted for a stunning 19.7 million of those stored in BIPAC’s system.



Although BIPAC does not publicly link to it, the slideshow was discoverable on Bipac.net’s server as of October 31 through a targeted keyword search on Google. (The document appears to have been since removed.)

FULL story at link.