Security personnel at California technology company plan to strike this week

According to Business Insider, security staff providing services to tech companies such as Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI in California plan to strike this week, which may lead some tech companies to close their offices and require employees to work from home. On Tuesday morning local time, security personnel submitted a 72-hour strike notice to the relevant companies, planning to refuse to participate in work shifts starting from 4:30 AM on Friday.

The United Service Workers West Union stated that the security personnel who may participate in the strike are responsible for guarding the offices of companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Nvidia. Currently, tech companies in the Bay Area have not announced any office closures due to the strike. This labor dispute involves several security service companies, including Allied Universal, Securitas, and GardaWorld, with the union representing approximately 14,000 security personnel in California. Negotiations over a new labor contract have been ongoing for several months.

Security personnel are demanding higher wages, improved healthcare benefits, and better job training. A union spokesperson stated that both parties will continue negotiations on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, and as of Tuesday, the strike has not been finalized. The union plans to organize a march for security personnel in downtown San Francisco on Tuesday, ending at the Salesforce Tower, where Salesforce's headquarters is located. On September 3, security personnel voted to authorize the strike at a rally in San Francisco.