(Disclosure: I’m proud to be working to help win this important battle.   – promoted by Bob Brigham)

Inter-Con security officers who protect Kaiser facilities will launch an unfair labor practice strike against Inter-Con to defend their civil rights on Tuesday, May 6. This is the first-ever group of hospital security officers to strike. Inter-Con has broken the law and violated workers’ civil rights by threatening, intimidating and spying on workers who were trying to form a union for better conditions.

Follow the strike at the Stand for Security web site.

The 3-day strike against employer Inter-Con will affect more than 20 Kaiser facilities statewide, and will cover more than 400 Inter-Con workers. Workers from facilities in Oakland, San Francisco, Hayward, Fremont, Fairfield and Union City in the Bay Area will strike. Other locations include Sacramento, Modesto, Los Angeles and surrounding areas, and the North Bay.

Inter-Con officers work for poverty wages, many making as little as $9/hour. Many Inter-Con officers cannot afford to buy the family healthcare coverage offered and do not have paid sick days. By comparison, facility janitors have free family healthcare, make a minimum of $11.50/hour and accrue paid sick leave.

I am an organizer for SEIU