Overview
- Nearly 14,000 contracted security guards walked off the job Friday and are picketing downtown San Francisco sites that include Salesforce Tower, the Salesforce Transit Center, 555 California St. and 101 California St.
- The union is seeking a clear path to $30 per hour, stronger family health benefits, expanded training and safer working conditions while calling the employers' roughly $0.65 raise offer inadequate.
- Union negotiators said talks with major security contractors reached an impasse after bargaining continued into the early morning hours, prompting the authorized strike to begin.
- The guards are employed by contractors such as Allied Universal, Securitas, GardaWorld, Prosegur, Inter-Con and PalAmerican who staff tech companies, banks, hospitals and transit hubs, which complicates direct accountability for clients that use those services.
- The strike coincided with the close of Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference, raising the chance of visible disruptions to events and daily operations and increasing pressure on contractors and their corporate clients to resolve the dispute.