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Supervisors advance ordinance to require prevailing wages for city security guards after extensive worker testimony
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee forwarded an ordinance to require prevailing wages for city-contracted security guards to the full Board after Supervisor Kim and union speakers argued the change would lift pay and standards for many low‑paid, often nonunion workers who guard city facilities and events.
Supervisor Kim urged the Budget & Finance Committee to adopt an ordinance requiring prevailing wages in city contracts for security guard services and for security work at events on city property, saying the change would raise pay and protect workers who currently earn below market rates. She told the committee that city-contracted security workers often earn “about $13.34” per hour and argued that a prevailing-wage floor would provide “a greater degree of economic security.”
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