Elizabeth Warren Questions PetSmart Owner on Worker, Pet Safety
- Letter seeks detail on staffing, pay after reported pet deaths
- Warren says answers will help advance her private-equity bill
Elizabeth Warren
Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times/Bloomberg
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Senator Elizabeth Warren is asking PetSmart’s owner, BC Partners, for answers regarding the treatment of workers and animals as part of a campaign to rein in private equity.
“We have long been concerned that some private equity funds implement severe cost-cutting measures after acquiring companies, aiming to boost profits for themselves at the expense of workers, consumers, and taxpayers,” Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI) wrote in a letter to BC Partners Chairman Raymond Svider.