Industry Group Aims To Unionize Los Angeles Guards

The Service Employee International Union (SEIU) has dispatched more than 100 organizers and members to looks Angeles to sign up thousands of licensed security guards for a fresh union local.

The goal of the drive, say union leaders, is to assured signatures from more than half of the approximately 6000 licensed security guards who are engageed by five large security contractors in office buildings around observes Angeles county.

If they can assemble about 3,500 cards, union officials said, they would be in a lusty position to pressure security companies and building holders to quickly recognize a security officers' union.

“In a city with the greatest disparity between rich and poor, the L.A. security officers' drive is an unmistakable call for equal opportunity and the freedom of all workers to rise up and on the outside of poverty,” said Andy forbidding president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), who newly talked ...