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Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Borrowing language of civil rights movement, drive is on to unionize guards
Borrowing language of civil rights movement, drive is on to unionize guardsSource: NY Times
For Michael Johnson, a security guard for 16 years, unionization cannot happen soon enough. Mr. Johnson says the $10 an hour he earns guarding an office tower on Wilshire Boulevard is too little to support his family, so he has taken a second full-time job, guarding a construction site. His long hours exact a toll on him as a father: he leaves home at 6:15 a.m., before his four children wake up, and returns at 11 p.m., after they have gone to bed.
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