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VACCINATE SECURITY GUARDS!
Throughout this pandemic, our jobs placed us in harm's way on the frontlines of COVID-19. While we were not alone, most other frontline workers received accolades and consideration from the Ontario Government. Health care workers and grocery store workers rightly received premiums, and long-term care workers, police, fire and ambulance first responders were put on the vaccine priority lists, to name a few. Meanwhile, The Government overlooked security guards while we remained in front of the frontlines, commissioned with regulating access to the other frontline workers, controlling access to public areas, implementing government regulations, and ensuring others' safety while risking our own. UFCW Local 333 fought hard to get our members COVID premiums, with no support from the Ontario Government. In many cases, we were successful, but our latest fight is much more critical. With variants of concern moving freely in our communities and after a declaration of a potentially more dangerous third wave, it is time that the Ontario Government recognizes that security guards are first responders and essential frontline workers. Security guards must be vaccinated immediately to protect the thousands of Ontario residents and their families with which we interact daily. It makes no sense to post a security guard at the front door of a vaccination centre, hospital, long-term care home, office building or a private and public housing complex; charged with subduing the spread of COVID 19 while being unvaccinated and denied access to the vaccine. Please show your support and share this link with your family and friends; add your name to the growing number of Ontarians who believe the Ontario Government needs to prioritize the ninety thousand Ontario security guards on the vaccine list immediately.
VACCINATE SECURITY GUARDS!