AlliedBarton Security Services

Type	subsidiary of Blackstone Group
Founded	1957 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Headquarters	Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, USA
Area served	United States of America
Industry	Security
Parent	Blackstone Private Equity [1]
Website	AlliedBarton.com

AlliedBarton Security Services is a security officer company in the United States, made up of the former companies Barton Protective Services, Spectaguard, Initial and Allied Security. It is the largest American owned security company in the United States, employing approximately 70,000 people throughout the country. The company is headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

Contents 1 College Security 2 Controversy 3 Timeline 4 References

[edit] College Security

AlliedBarton is experienced in higher education security, currently serving more than 100 colleges and universities nationwide. Their list of collegiate clients includes Duke University, Columbia, Temple and the University of Pennsylvania.

[edit] Controversy

A security guard exposed himself to a student at the University of Pennsylvania and was subsequently fired.^[2] Additional controversy occurred at Penn when labor union SEIU attempted to unionize AlliedBarton guards at Penn in 2006, but the union met with resistance. Since then, AlliedBarton employees have remained without a union and have been working with Jobs with Justice to help get benefits and higher pay from the University. The SEIU agreed not to unionize the guards in return for Allied Barton agreeing to be neutral during labor strikes Pennsylvania.^[3] Philadelphia Museum of Art museum’s guards, a majority of which signed union authorization cards in November 2008, find themselves in an unusual bind: They are unable to find a union willing and able to push their employer, security industry giant AlliedBarton, to recognize them as a legitimate bargaining unit. In part, this is because federal labor law has specific provisions making it difficult for security officers to organize; guards can join a union that also represents workers who are not guards only if their employer chooses to recognize it.^[4]

AlliedBarton has also been accused of discrimination. In Abdul-Rahman vs. Allied Barton, AlliedBarton agreed to pay $7,000 to Mr. Abdul-Rahman over a discrimination claim.^[5] There is also a pending lawsuit (M. Braithwaite vs. AlliedBarton) over discrimination in New York federal district court over discrimination.^[6]

[edit] Timeline

• 1977
  • Barton Protective Services founded in Atlanta, Georgia
• 1980
  • Spectaguard founded in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
• 1999
  • Spectaguard acquires New York-based Effective Security
• 2000
  • Spectaguard acquires Allied and combines to form Allied Security - the third largest security company in the United States
• 2003
  • Allied acquires Professional Security Bureau (PSB)
• 2004
  • Allied acquires SSI
  • Allied acquires Barton Protective Services to form Allied-Barton Security Services - creating the largest American-owned contract security services company in the United States
• 2006
  • Allied-Barton acquires Initial Security

In 2006 the company was awarded 98th place in the USA for training employees by Training Magazine, from a potential field of some 45,000 companies.^[7]

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.blackstone.com/news/press_releases%5C7-28-2008.pdf
2. ^ http://thedp.com/node/56669
3. ^ http://thedp.com/node/56511
4. ^ http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4382/labor_limbo/
5. ^ http://www.lac.org/doc_library/lac/publications/leading_cases.pdf
6. ^ http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-nysdce/case_no-1:2008cv11145/case_id-337912/
7. ^ Manage Smarter - Performance Gateway

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