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Security guards need union representation

Mar 01, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
The trade unions have to bring security guards together with the object of representing their interests. Security guards from different parts of the country and working in various jobs and industries have for a long time fallen between two stools and have had no representation for their many grievances.
Many of the security guards work in private security companies. They receive none of the awards or any other benefits given to any ordinary workers from time to time, because they are not considered to be ordinary workers, they cannot be represented by a union and because they are not quite on a par with policemen, they have no claims to the awards and conditions of service that go to members of the police force.
For a long time now, men and women employed as security guards have been complaining about their official conditions of work and their low pay rates. All their appeals have, so far, fallen on deaf ears. Thus, this important new step in organizing them under the auspices of the trade unions, now gives hope that some of their very important problems can be ventilated and given representation. We welcome the move and hope that the work in the direction of giving these workers good representation will meet with success.
Sherwood Clarke
President
Clerical & Commercial Workers’ Union

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