Stand for Security Coalition

The Stand for Security Coalition is a broad citywide coalition of religious and community leaders formed to support the security officers and draw public attention to the violation of these workers’ civil rights and freedom to form a union of their choice. While building owners have acceded to union representation for their primarily Latino janitorial workforce and their largely Anglo engineering workforce, they are opposing union representation for security officers.

New report finds that high turnover and inadequate training among security officers pose a serious threat to public safety at office buildings throughout Los Angeles!

The report, Undertrained, Underpaid and Unprepared: How L.A.’s Commercial Office Building Owners Are Failing Security Officers and Compromising Public Safety, was released by the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) and the Stand for Security Coalition. The report finds that turnover rates among security officers range from 60 to 243 percent annually at high-rise office buildings included in an original survey. Read Report

In addition, the Stand for Security coalition won support from a City Council committee for a proposal to require building owners to designate and train on-site private first responders, in order to improve the city's emergency preparedness. Another policy under consideration would require employers to make minimum healthcare contributions in order to improve employee retention, which will maximize the benefits of training and provide a more experienced workforce.
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News Stories

Security Officers Win Rights to Organize
Our Weekly- November 22, 2006

SEIU’s Strategy Clears Way for L.A. Guards to Unionize
Los Angeles Business Journal - November 20, 2006

Honor thy Security Guard
Los Angeles Times - November 17, 2006

Owners to Let Guards Unionize
Los Angeles Times - November 16, 2006

SEIU Reaches Security Guard Pact
Los Angeles Business Journal - November 15, 2006

Borrowing Language of Civil Rights Movement, Drive Is On to
Unionize Guards
New York Times - July 26, 2006

Union Hopes to Organize L.A. Security Guards
Los Angeles Times - June 26, 2006

Security Coalition Team Asks For Better Conditions
CBS Broadcasting - June 26, 2006

The Unfinal Fact of Freedom: The Ongoing Struggle for Justice
Los Angeles Sentinel - April 19, 2006

Maguire Agrees to Guards-Only Union
California Real Estate Journal - April 17, 2006

Downtown Security Guards to Unionize
Los Angeles Downtown News - April 17, 2006

L.A. Councilmembers Propose Security Guard Training
California Real Estate Journal - April 17, 2006

Guarded Celebration
Our Weekly - April 13, 2006

Income Gap More Like a Chasm
Los Angeles Times - April 12, 2006

Big Property Owner Agrees to Union
LA Daily News – April 12, 2006

Deal Reached to Let Hundreds of Security Guards Unionize
Los Angeles Times - April 12, 2006

Safe, Secure and Unionized
Los Angeles Times - April 12, 2006

Maguire Agrees to Guards Union
Los Angeles Business Journal - April 11, 2006

$8.50 an Hour Buys a Bleak Existence
Los Angeles Times - April 9, 2006

Upgrades Urged for Security Guards
Los Angeles Daily News - April 7, 2006

A Stand-up Sit-In
Los Angeles Alternative - April 7, 2006

L.A. City Councilmembers Propose Security Guard Legislation
California Real Estate Journal - April 7, 2006

City Training for Building Guards Urged
Los Angeles Times - April 7, 2006

Ordinance Aims to Improve Building Security
Los Angeles Business Journal - April 6, 2006

Luz Verde Para Sindicato de Guardias
La Opinión - March 6, 2006

Security Guards Gain Ground in Unionizing Effort
Our Weekly - March 2, 2006

Clergy Rally Behind Security Guards’ Efforts to Unionize
Los Angeles Wave - October 6, 2005

Unionizing L.A. Guards Isn't Easy
Los Angeles Times - September 17, 2005

Security Guards Demanding Unionization
Glendale News Press - August 25, 2005

MLK III, Civil Rights Leaders, Security Officers, to Call on G.E. Real Estate/Arden Realty to Stop Racist Policies

Security officers are on the verge of a historic step forward that will raise security standards and provide good jobs for this mostly African American workforce and their families. But G.E./Arden is threatening to unravel all that. More

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently announced that L.A.'s biggest downtown building owner Robert Maguire has agreed to support private security officers' efforts to form a union. More

CLUE stands with Security Officers: At a recent demonstration, CLUE's Safe and Secure Campaign Organizer Rev. Lewis Logan led hundreds of clergy, community leaders and security officers through the rain to Bunker Hill, the symbolic center of the city's wealth, in a nonviolent demonstration calling for civil rights for Los Angeles' predominatly black security officers working in poverty.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Press Releases

›	Major Breakthrough in Ongoing Struggle to Secure and Protect Civil Rights of Security Officers November 15th, 2006
›	Security Officers, Black Clergy, Community Groups From South L.A. to Launch Intensive One-Week Worker Outreach Drive to Fight Poverty Conditions in Private Security Industry June 26, 2006
›	High Turnover, Inadequate Training Among Security Officers Threaten Public Safety at L.A. High-Rises April 6, 2006
›	Religious, Community Leaders Demand Civil Rights For Security Officers September 29, 2005
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Watch a Video of Security Officers Taking Action!

Stand For Security Coalition Advisory Board Endorsees

•	Bishop Henry Williamson Presiding Prelate, 9th Episcopal District, C.M.E. Church
•	Bishop John R. Bryant Presiding Prelate, 5th Episcopal District A.M.E Church
•	Minister Tony Muhammed Western Region Representative, Nation of Islam
•	Rev. James Lawson, Jr. President of the Board SCLC
•	Bishop Gabino Zavala Roman Catholic Archdiocese
•	Bishop Mary Anne Swenson United Methodist Church
•	Rabbi Alan Henkin Union of Reform Judaism
•	Rabbi Leonard Beerman Founding Rabbi Leo Baeck Temple
•	Rev. Eric Lee CEO of the SCLC-Los Angeless
•	Marqeece Harris Dawson Community Coalition, Executive Director
•	Anthony Thigpen Agenda, Founder
•	Geraldine Washington NAACP, President, Los Angeles
•	Dr. Maulana Karenga Organization US, Chairman
•	Rev. Dr. Cecil “Chip” Murray Pastor (retired), Community Leader
•	Rev Lewis Logan II Stand for Security Campaign Organizer Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice
•	Rev. William Campbell President Los Angeles Council of Churches

Find out more about security officers' efforts to organize a union.

Clergy and Community United in Support of Los Angeles Security Officers
www.StandForSecurityCoalition.com