Our city depends on the museum guards to protect some of our most priceless cultural treasures. Despite this, the guards at the Philadelphia Museum of Art earn poverty wages, often can't access the expensive health care provided by their employer and have few if any paid sick-days. They want to change this. You can help.
Welcome to Philadelphia! As tax payer, I support the guards at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in their efforts to win fair wages and a just workplace by forming their own, independent, labor union.
The Museum is a valued part of our city and one of our most treasured landmarks. While in many ways it is a symbol of civic pride, recent media reports that the security guards receive poverty wages damages the image of our city.
Philadelphia believes in the dignity of its workers, and we regret that the Museum currently fails to reflect this core value. The role that the security officer play at the Museum is vital to the safety of the art and the patrons.
I urge you to recognize their collective voice by telling your sub-contractor to stop its anti-union, fear campaign against the Philadelphia Security Officers Union. Furthermore, I ask that you begin to take concrete steps to improve the guards' working conditions.
I am excited to be "Welcoming Change" at the Museum and look forward to seeing how you will make a top priority out of workers' rights, family-sustaining wages, and a voice on the job for the security guards.
With hope for a better future,
Signed by:
[Your name]
[Your address]
