keith ward, and carl walter [speaker not understood]. >>> hi, good evening. i have a letter addressed to the board that -- >> i'm sorry, your name? >>> sure, my name is carl walter. i'm an organizer for service employees international, united service workers west, and we represent 40,000 security officers, janitors, airport service workers, and an allied entertainment division across the state of california. i'd like to thank you for allowing me the time to speak to you this evening. and begin by acknowledging the enormous responsibility that all of you share to ensuring the quality of education for the children of san francisco and to have a brighter future for tomorrow. i'm here tonight this evening to talk to you about the contract for security services that went out to bid recently in the district. the district has utilized security services for over 12 years. securitaz is a union company. the union has worked for over a decade in san francisco and across the bay area to improve standards for security officers. ~ abc security is a signatory to our agreeme

keith ward, and carl walter [speaker not understood]. >>> hi, good evening. i have a letter addressed to the board that -- >> i'm sorry, your name? >>> sure, my name is carl walter.

my name is keith ward. i'm the security officer. i'm also vice president of ufww. as jontel and carl said, my concern with abc is their history. we had to do a petition against them. we've had to do rallies against them, both in san francisco and in oakland. they have a tendency to not give their raises to their security officers. we get a raise every year. in january, 65 cents, whatever it is now, but they get it. they would not give it to them. we'd have to fight them for it. it's my main concern, security officer. your security officer spends 12 years. you have another security officer paloma, i apologize for that. but when she started, they were $11 an hour. now they're making $15 an hour. i worry if abc comes in they're going to start worrying their wages. if you under bid some other competitives by $100,000, light bulb should go off in your head. the ones that are going to suffer are the security officers. it always seems that way. i have a concern that i'm going to be getting calls in the middle of the night saying that abc has dropped my wages, or my vacati