Securitas-L.A. To Lay Off 28 Field Supervisors

Left, a Securitas field supervisor checks on a guard at a county facility.

Securitas security officers who work at Los Angeles County facilities as guards and screeners joined SEIU (Service Employees International Union) last year, despite intimidating tactics by the company.

For the past several months, efforts have been made to secure a new contract between Securitas, its employees (through SEIU) and Los Angeles County. Complaints of foot-dragging on the part of Securitas has been leveled against the company by SEIU.

The Los Angeles office of Securitas (located at Wilshire Blvd. and Catalina) is known for its dishonest practices including advertising vacations and other benefits and then claiming to new hires that "there's no vacation pay, it's governed by the contract with L.A. County." They also promise fair hearings on employment disputes and then renege.

Those are some of many reasons Securitas officers joined the union.

Word has reached my desk that Securitas plans to lay off 28 field supervisors this week. I wonder how this will play since the supervisors are all union members. Did Securitas lose its contract with L.A. County?

Officers who may be part of the lay off are concerned that they will get the ax while "pets" of Securitas management will get to keep their jobs. There's been a history of favoritism at Securitas. I'm glad I'm out of that place.

A union meeting is scheduled.