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Students Take a Stand for Security Guard Rights: Temple Students Meet with Allied-Barton

by Todd Wolfson & Nic Riley, Media Mobilizing Project | 12.05.2007

Students from Temple University will meet with representatives of Allied-Barton Security Services on Thursday, December 6th, to discuss the working conditions of the university’s campus security officers. The students—members of Temple’s Student Labor Action Project (SLAP)—requested the meeting with Allied-Barton and Temple University administrators to discuss the low wages and lack of paid sick leave that Allied Barton security guards currently receive. Kate Harkins, A student at Temple University explained, “In this meeting we intend to get straight answers from Allied and let them know that we will not back down when it comes to the rights of workers on our campuses.”

See the Media Mobilizing Project video on the security guard campaign here

Photo by Harvey Finkle

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Students at both Temple and the University of Pennsylvania have been working with Philadelphia Jobs with Justice (JWJ) to lobby both Allied Barton and their respective university administrations for improved working conditions for the guards. “It’s simple numbers,” Kate added, “guards represented by a union will make nearly 2 times what guards at Penn and Temple make.” Last year, Penn agreed to grant security guards on its campus a limited number of paid sick days (a minimum of one and no more than three per year) but all other Allied-Barton security guards in Philadelphia, including the over three hundred assigned to Temple’s campus, still do not receive any paid sick leave. The students are hoping to gain more information from the Allied-Barton representatives about the company’s contract with Temple University in addition to updated statistics regarding wages, benefits, and training for all Allied-Barton security guards.

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