AI companies are growing increasingly wealthy, yet the hourly wage of security guards at their gates has risen by just 25 cents over four years.

Beating AI News Flash: Security personnel providing security services to office buildings of firms including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Salesforce have voted to approve strikes when necessary. The staff are mainly employed by third-party security companies such as Allied Universal and Securitas. No official strike announcement has been made yet; whether a strike will actually occur and its start date depend on upcoming labor negotiations, which have been underway for months. The SEIU-USWW union is demanding a $30 hourly minimum wage, plus improved family health insurance, retirement benefits, and job security. The union states management proposed a total of just 25 cents in hourly wage increases over the next four years, with no raises for three of those years. The union currently represents around 14,000 security workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles County. The negotiations have already impacted AI companies' offices: Last week, Anthropic closed its San Francisco office and had employees work remotely after receiving a strike warning from Allied Universal, at a time when union members had not yet voted to approve strikes. That vote has now been completed. OpenAI and Anthropic have both faced security threats targeting their employees in recent years, and tech companies are continuously enhancing physical security.