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The POWR campaign is an innovative effort to win real change that matter to working families. Security officers have abnormally large barriers to self-organizing. Luckily, the POWR campaign’s coalition of security guards, labor unions, local religious constituent groups and student activists have found a way to win the things that Philadelphia security guards and their families.

Over the last year, the POWR campaign has won more than $2 million in new wages and benefits for security guards all across the city (read stories about these victories in the press section)

2005
SLAP at Temple forced Penn (via a petition drive and bad press) to reassign five security guard activists who were “suspended” and moved off of their posts for trying to organize.

2006
SLAP activists at U Penn forced the university and AlliedBarton to improve working conditions for the workers. Roving guards are no longer forced to have their shift change meetings in a garbage storage room beneath a Wawa. The University of Pennsylvania stated that the new worker facility was a “million dollar” improvement.

2007
After two years of activism, UPenn announced their new sick-day policy for AlliedBarton guards. AlliedBarton guards now get up to three days of paid sick-leave.

Pete Winebrake, Esq, helped the POWR campaign filed a class-action lawsuit against Robert Oakley, owner of Oakley Services. Mr. Oakley had a habit of missing the payroll, and stealing wages from his 80 security guards at a site in N. Philadelphia. These workers are now getting organized into a union!

2008
POWR won sick-leave for the security guard at Temple University for the first time ever!

Some UPenn guards win wage raises from $9.80/hour to $15/hour!

Security guards from all around the city are getting organized.

 

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