Security guard contract talks to begin today

The guy from AZ sounds like a total loser. I don't understand how men can not work and then let their wives support them. He needs to get a real job for more than 32 hours.

I knew this guy, a really lazy man who let his wife support him while he worked a 32 hour job as a security guard in Arizona. He was tall, fat, and a bum.

There are lots of jobs that are in a sense "dead end." Teaching does have a track to management, but so does security work if you prepare yourself through advance education. Few rise to management and in teaching, few rise to department heads or or principals.... The trouble with security is that it is often observation and sign-ins and out, and patrol that are boring and thus unhappiness. It is basically static - a post without much need for supervision. The most skillful will rise to management. You are probably not going to get a living wage or many benefits with a union, but I think a consortium of businesses in a building may be willing to contract more effectively....

To the security guards: You don't like your low paying job GO back to school, take computer classes, accounting classes; SF City College offers great classes that are either free or low tution I worked in the hotel/resturant business for years and was tired of the low wages and very little benefits; and now 20 years later after year $20,000 I now earn over $65,000 a year working in legal; i worked 50 hour weeks in the resturant business, took classes when ever i had free time; i was tired, some times thinking of giving up but i kept looking for that light at the end of the tunnel;EDUCATION is the key word these days

I participated in the strike vote and found the process quite irregular. No secret ballot just signs and multiple proxy votes from Oakland! We were not allowed to walk out of there with a no vote! This union flexes its muscle at the risk of low paying jobs. I feel for the guards at U.P.S. but they should have researched their union like I did and realize that the strike vote was illegitimate. Come on! We waved cards around! How many of those at the meeting were actually SF guards? I saw a few that I knew but not many more. Many of those in purple shirts, Union reps, also voted! Booo! SEIU should get some professional organizers instead of those kids right out of College! Furthermore, the NLRB sets standards regarding strike votes according to other union reps I spoke to. We the workers were mislead by a union attempting to flex its muscle in our front yard without any regard for our welfare!

I'm not understanding the resolution by the BOS in support of the strike when City employees, including SEIU, have no-strike contracts? Typical of this awful Board.

has anybody ever seen Securitas guards? they look like the exploited from other countries and some are so old, they'll enjoy sleeping on the job, like this is america, what a cushy job. how can they better train guards, they don't do anything except watch people all day long, standing at attention. for what? for the terrorist to make their arrival? it's a lazy man's job, it's not even a real job, most are slouches, many are afro-american. most people do it so they can move onto other things. the worse ones are the lifers, who grow old, fat, lazy, and stupid in this line of work. some can't read or write and they're born in the us of a.

I agree. Good for them. The pay could be better,especially at high risk jobs like hospital security and armored cars. Some security officer jobs include first responder,firefighter and emergency medical technician duties. They are the first to respond when something happens. They prevent thefts,handle situations with drugged out people and other stuff before the police arrive. Richard Jewel,the security guard at the Atlantic Olympics,saved many lives had he not seen that backpack before it exploded. Instead,he was accused of setting it up to make him look good. Turned out it be someone else responsible for bombings at abortion clinics. Most security officers are dedicated to their job and do it well. Sure,some tend to abuse their jobs,just like the police but most I know are good people who like their job. They just feel under-appreciated by the client and their security company.

Good for them! They are underpaid, underappreciated, and overworked. Most companies get at least $24 per hour for guard service; they should give more of that to the guards. I hope that they can make Securitas, ABM, Guardsmark, etc. see the light and pay them what they are worth.