32BJ SEIU

08/10/2026

Earlier this month, South Florida 32BJ members were out in full force knocking doors for Congressional candidate Oliver Gilbert in District 24. 32BJ is proud to stand with a champion for working people who has consistently shown up and delivered. Oliver Gilbert don’t forget to vote 🗳️ in the FL primary August 18th!

08/10/2026

“I am panicking. I can’t eat. I can’t sleep. My kid asks if I’ll be there when he gets home from school.” One of our members shares the fear families are living with after the Supreme Court’s recent TPS decision. Read more in The Washington Post about what this decision means for our communities:

The Trump administration and courts are at odds over whether about 350,000 Haitians have officially lost humanitarian protections, but employers are already letting workers go.

08/04/2026

Security officers are standing up in NYC!

32BJ SEIU security members in NYC have collectively bargained for 100% employer paid healthcare, including access to thousands of leading doctors with $0 co-pays. Includes dental and vision.

Do you know a security officer in NYC who deserves a union?

Send them this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/H6576DM?src=[src_value

08/03/2026

Thairecka Johnson worked for Metropolitan Protective Services in Baltimore for two years. She signed a strike card before the April 9 action but was on vacation that day so she didn’t participate.

A few weeks later she had a family emergency with my daughter. I texted my supervisor and got an “ok.” No warning. No write-up.

But when she returned the receptionist told her: “They are getting rid of anyone that did that... It’s a loyalty thing.”

Now she’s stuck, removed from my post, no formal termination, and HR is unreachable. No answers. No paycheck.

This is retaliation. Workers shouldn’t be punished for standing together.

Join us in demanding answers by signing the petition: https://secure.ngpvan.com/1raHQ2YYFU-q5L5Gk_c8ug2
or calling Metropolitan Protective Services: 301-772-2412

Stand For Security

07/31/2026

MPS workers and 32BJ SEIU stood in solidarity yesterday with security officers around the country because we deserve better.

A UC Berkeley study found that private security workers are among the lower-paid workers in the U.S. labor market, yet are twice as likely to die on the job than the average worker.

We deserve better.

07/31/2026

In May, workers, alongside & , secured the biggest private sector union organizing victory in decades: 70k Uber/Lyft drivers in MA won certification of their union and the right to bargain collectively.

We wrote about what it takes to build worker power at: https://onlabor.org/app-drivers-and-the-promise-of-state-labor-law/ (➡️ Link in Bio)

07/29/2026

Our New Jersey Union Summer Block Party Was Special!

We came together to build our solidarity, we played games, we ate good food and had fun!

members traveled from Camden, Lakewood, Trenton, Plainfield, Dover, and across New Jersey. And all our divisions were represented, from Commercial, Security, Airports, Food Service, Residential, and workers organizing for a union!

07/28/2026

For too long, security officers have been underappreciated and undervalued. Today, we honor our fallen union brother Aland Etienne by improving wages and benefits for ALL NYC security officers - in Aland’s name and in his honor.

The law will increase the minimum wage for city security officers.

07/28/2026

32BJ SEIU is proud to endorse Oliver Gilbert for U.S. Congress District 24. A bold and trusted leader, Gilbert has consistently stood with Florida’s working families, including being the prime sponsor for establishing paid sick time for over 1,000 security officers.

32BJ SEIU is proud to endorse Alexis Calatayud for Florida State Senate District 38. Calatayud been a defender of Miami-Dade workers and their right to earn a living wage.

07/28/2026

One year ago, Aland Etienne, security officer, father, 32BJ member who was killed doing the job he showed up for every day.

Today his name is law.

The Aland Etienne Act: NY’s first private sector minimum wage law since 1964. A wage floor, benefits, paid time off for 80,000+ security officers.
———
Hace un año, Aland Etienne, oficial de seguridad, papá y miembro de 32BJ, fue asesinado haciendo el trabajo al que llegaba todos los días.

Hoy su nombre es ley.

La Ley Aland Etienne: la primera ley de salario mínimo del sector privado en Nueva York desde 1964. Un piso salarial, beneficios y días pagadospara más de 80,000 oficiales de seguridad.