SECURITY UNION WINS ELECTION

Three Workers Returned To Post, NRLB Fines DWRC

The PSOU won their election to represent 18 security guards employed by Roman Sentry today.

The union is still fighting to have Juanita Love, a long time union activist who has appeared in several media reports in the past, returned to her post after she was terminated for speaking a union rally two weeks ago.

The union has recently had to respond to a handful of firings and suspensions that have spread across three companies and at two work sites.

Love’s termination was followed by three terminations at the museum of AlliedBarton guards and union activists.

Kenneth Adams and Asia Ray, both union activists, were terminated after they joined union leaders in speaking up against the banning of lunch breaks in the Perelman Annex. The company reinstated the lunch breaks but also required all of the Perelman guards to double their work load; to complete ten tours of the facility per night.

Two days after the new policy was enacted, Ray and Adams were terminated.

Today, the union was able to get Ray’s job back at another facility.

The day after their terminations, another guard who participated in the protest, Cherelle Cross, was terminated.

The union has restored Cross her job back as well.

The union was also facing problems on the other side of the city, at the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation.

For weeks the union had been struggling to keep all of their union members on the job after management slashed hours of all of the workers after learning of the union drive.

This retribution was followed a few days later by the suspension of union supporter, Luis Parrilla.

Undaunted, the union won the election on October 7th.

On Wednesday, October 26th the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the shift changes and reduction in hours amounted to illegal anti-union activity and has issued an order to force the Delaware River Waterfront Corp. to pay all of the workers back wages for any hours that they missed since schedule change.

The union estimates that the total remittance will exceed $3,000.

Today, Luis Parilla was restored to the post that he has held for four years.