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<\/p>\nThe labor practice strike is set to start Friday, according to the union representing some of the tech industry\u2019s security guards.<\/p>\n
Sep 15, 2026<\/p>\n
Updated 5:41 pm PT<\/p>\n
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Advocates chant at a Sept. 2, 2026, press conference announcing that union security officers from across San Francisco and Silicon Valley voted in favor of an Unfair Labor Practice strike authorization, at Mechanics Monument Plaza in San Francisco\u2019s Financial District. The guards working at some of the Bay Area\u2019s most profitable companies also rallied outside of the Dreamforce Conference on Tuesday.\u00a0(Nina Glick\/KQED)<\/p>\n
Security workers guarding some of the biggest names in the tech industry said they will strike starting Friday.<\/p>\n
The strike comes after months of negotiations over fair wages and improved benefits with 15 private-security contractors and employers, during which the union has called attention to the disparity between compensation for guards and the vast wealth that they protect.<\/p>\n
A press release for the Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West, which represents some of the security guards, states they will strike after \u201cbad faith bargaining, surveillance of officers, retaliatory discipline, making unilateral changes, illegally coercing, restraining, and interfering with officers\u2019 right to strike, and other unfair practices on the job as they fight for a fair contract.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allied Universal said that they \u201cdo not comment on ongoing labor negotiations.\u201d Securitas did not respond to KQED\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n
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A security officer chants during a Sept. 2, 2026, press conference at Mechanics Monument Plaza in San Francisco\u2019s Financial District, where the union representing security officers from across San Francisco and Silicon Valley voted in favor of an Unfair Labor Practice strike authorization.\u00a0(Nina Glick\/KQED)<\/p>\n
The offer on the bargaining table is a 65-cent raise over the next two years, according to the press release \u2014 guards currently make a median hourly wage of $20.09, according to a UC Berkeley study.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re looking for a path for $30 [an hour] for all officers,\u201d said Stephen Boardman, a spokesperson for the SEIU-USWW.<\/p>\n
Jerry Longoria, a security guard with Allied Universal, said he has gone through five contract negotiations in his 25 years as a security guard.<\/p>\n
Jane Martin, an organizer with the activist group Bay Resistance, joined the security workers on Tuesday, holding signs with slogans like \u201cKeep families together,\u201d \u201cGood jobs to security officers\u201d and \u201cNo ICE, no fear.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Salesforce logo is a cloud, and the name of the conference is Dreamforce, so we wrote our own hopes and dreams into the cloud signs,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n
KQED\u2019s Jose Velazquez contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The labor practice strike is set to start Friday, according to the union representing some of the tech…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-465673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}