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Teamsters protest newspapers over hiring of security guards
Employees of Teamsters Local 628 were unhappy in the first place when the owners of the Inquirer and Daily News sent layoff notices to 32 building-service workers and security guards effective July 1, noting the workers wouldn't be needed once the papers moved form North Broad Street to a new rented space at 810 Market St. But Local 628 president John Laigaie says it was somewhat understandable: The landlord of the new building provided the services as part of the lease, and the union had to live with it. What he has a problem with: When the company decided to hire extra security guards for the safety of its night-shift workers, he says, it didn't rehire any old security staff — instead, it looked to the building manager to hire the extra security, presumably at a lower cost.
Teamsters protest newspapers over hiring of security guards
Employees of Teamsters Local 628 were unhappy in the first place when the owners of the Inquirer and Daily News sent layoff notices to 32 building-service workers and security guards effective July 1, noting the workers wouldn't be needed once the papers moved form North Broad Street to a new rented space at 810 Market St. But Local 628 president John Laigaie says it was somewhat understandable: The landlord of the new building provided the services as part of the lease, and the union had to live with it. What he has a problem with: When the company decided to hire extra security guards for the safety of its night-shift workers, he says, it didn't rehire any old security staff — instead, it looked to the building manager to hire the extra security, presumably at a lower cost.
Workers from the local were out protesting on North Broad Street yesterday and in front of the new building today. "We're pretty upset that the new owners chose to lay off people when they could have used them [to work at the new site]," Laigaie says. "This was a perfect opportunity where they could have gone and used their own security people."
Laigaie said the new owners may have just made negotiations with their drivers — who are also in the local and whose contracts are up in less than 90 days — that much more challenging."To have people believe you, you have to show credibility. If they had kept the security guards on, that would have let people know it's not just about dollars and cents. That would have shown a lot of decency, and people would have said, 'Let's work with this company. Let's make some adjustments.' Now, when you see that they completely disregarded the people employed by them, then you see it's not different [from the previous ownership], that, 'You don't care about us, about your employees.'"
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