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Security guards throughout the city of Philadelphia face the problem of low wages and few benefits. 97% of the private security guards in Philadelphia are African- American. AlliedBarton is the largest security company in our. Like the black workers in Memphis in 1968, security guards face systemic oppression. Like the black workers in Memphis in 1968, we want to unite and stand up for our families.

 

This Labor Day, stand up for workers rights with POWR.
Tell the Philadelphia Museum of Art
“Every Worker Deserves Paid Sick-Leave.”

 

Philadelphia Museum of Art is using your tax money to harm workers. Over the last decade Philadelphians have given the museum more than $10 million dollars in tax generated money and many millions more in donated facilities. Despite this, the security guards at the Philadelphia Museum of Art are the only people working on the property without any paid sick leave.

 

“We are forced to work when we are ill. We are forced to leave our sick children without our care and come to work. We are forced to perform our job impaired by over-the-counter medication. Poor people like us cannot afford to miss work if it means not getting paid.” PMA Security Guard

Philadelphia’s security force needs your help! No working man should be poor!

Jobs with Justice and POWR have already won $2 million pay increases in 2008 for some guards at UPenn and Temple, but thousands more across our city are still grossly underpaid. Now, we need your help to tell Gerry Lenfest, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, to take a stand for the guards that protect priceless collections at the PMA.