For years now, Jobs with Justice has been working with security guards in Philadelphia to professionalize this industry. There are 16,000 security guards in our city. These jobs are among the most deadly in our city. …
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The Philadelphia Security Officers Union is proposing a plan to improve the safety of the general public, the collections and museum workers by reducing the high worker turn-over through a progressive training program, improving wages, benefits and working conditions.
Museum CEO, Tim Rub and AlliedBarton are preventing progress toward a safer, healthier museum.
After five years with Jobs with Justice, I am moving on. I will be working with the PSOU and various projects over the next few months. This blog will be my home on the web for this next phase in my organizing life. Please check back periodically to keep up with my work and to see various commentary on issues of the day.
Goodbye Jobs with Justice…
I woke up in the middle of the night a couple nights ago. There was a warm rain coming down and the air was moist. I felt comfortable, wrapped in familiar setting that appeared below my half opened eyes.
But, as I laid there, in the dark, a strange feeling suddenly washed over me. I realized that the perception that I had a second before was not reality. I realized that a moment after I had woken up I had imagined myself where I was a decade before, not in my bed in Philadelphia, PA, but in a mine camp outside of Juneau, AK.