April 27, 2010 / AlliedBarton

Museum, “Swings the whip”

From In These Times Magazine…

Yesterday (April 12), Philadelphia city councilmen debated whether to dole out $2.3 million to the Philadelphia Art Museum while its security guards are in a bitter contract battle with the private AlliedBarton security firm…Organizers say the museum has the power to mandate elements of AlliedBarton’s contract with workers, noting that a recent gain of three paid sick days per year was at the museum’s behest.

“It’s one of those things with subcontracting,” Soriano-Castillo said. “Usually these really wealthy institutions want to pay someone else to abuse workers. They think they can say ‘It’s not me swinging the whip, it’s those guys at AlliedBarton, there’s nothing we can do about it.’ Then you go to AlliedBarton and they say, ‘The client has the final say on everything.’ They just keep sending us back and forth.”


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