Four ways security firms run a strike with StrikeLeap.
The four scenarios in this brief are composite — drawn from the kind of engagement private security firms across the U.S. run every week. They're illustrative, not endorsed customer testimonials. Use them to imagine StrikeLeap in your own context, then book a 20-minute call with us to size your actual event.
- UAW strike at a Midwest assembly plant
- Food plant lockout in the Pacific Northwest
- Cross-dock warehouse picket, ILWU jurisdictional dispute
- Hospital network nurses' strike
UAW strike at a Midwest assembly plant
A regional security firm is hired by a Tier-1 automaker after the UAW walks. Three gates around a 200-acre plant. 38 guards on shift across day and night. The engagement is expected to run 6–8 weeks; the firm has to give the client daily situation reports and is told an injunction may go to court within two weeks.
The firm's existing playbook is paper logs and group texts. Last strike, the corporate client demanded photo evidence of three blocking-the-gate incidents — the firm produced screenshots from a guard's personal phone, which the client's attorney rejected as 'chain-of-custody unclear.' They lost the renewal.
- Buys the Standard Event license ($8,539) — fits one or two sites, up to 50 officers, includes Check-In & onboarding, secure voice channel, and the litigation-ready legal export.
- Mobilization day: 38 officers clear the four onboarding gates at the trailer — drug test, state license, uniform issuance, custom equipment-checkout gate. Day-1 paperwork (Payroll Master, Work Rules, Vehicle Agreement) signed in person on the spot.
- Auto-pair drops the 38 officers into hotel rooms — gender-blocked, shift-aligned. The hotel folio gets reconciled weekly against the assignment record; one folio dispute letter generated.
- Officers file Crowd Updates every 30 minutes from each post. Photo + headcount + sentiment in three taps.
- When a striker climbs a fence, the officer taps Incident — type 'trespass,' severity 'high,' photo, GPS pin. The Site Supervisor's phone vibrates within seconds.
- Push-to-talk voice channel keeps the perimeter coordinated without burning radio batteries.
- Weekly: SM signs off shift logs in the three-stage chain, the payroll preview locks the week's hours and per-diem, and the daily report goes to the client at 1900 every night.
- At engagement end, the firm runs the legal export — every incident, photo, timestamp, and chain-of-custody event in a single PDF with a SHA-256 hash for verification.
- Client renews for the duration of the strike at a 15% rate increase.
- Attorney accepts the legal export as Rule 902(13) self-authenticating digital evidence.
- Firm wins two follow-on contracts from other UAW-targeted plants on referral.
Food plant lockout in the Pacific Northwest
BCTGM workers walk off a meat-processing facility. The client demands 24/7 coverage at one gate and a satellite refrigerated-trailer yard 1.5 miles away. 18 guards. Expected duration: 3–5 weeks. State labor board oversight is active and inspector visits are random.
The firm needs to prove its guards were where they said they were, did what they said they did, when an inspector arrives unannounced asking for 30 days of post-coverage logs.
- Standard Event license ($8,539). Two sites, both mapped. Posts placed on the gate and the trailer yard.
- Mobilization day clears all 18 officers through Check-In: drug test attendant uses a magic-link invite (scoped permissions, no full dashboard access); uniform vendor likewise. Every gate cleared logs to the audit trail with attendant + timestamp.
- Clock-in rounding configured at ±5 minutes — officers who arrive a few minutes early or late get the schedule, not the watch.
- Crowd Updates filed every 30 min; supervisor sees real-time coverage on every post.
- Supervisor Requests (panic button on every officer's phone) tested weekly. Acknowledge + close states tracked from the dashboard. Response SLA: under 60 seconds in spot-checks.
- Inspector arrives Day 19 — firm produces a 30-day daily-reports binder + the legal export from the dashboard in under five minutes. Every report carries a SHA-256 hash.
- Inspector's audit closes with zero findings.
- Client extends the engagement two weeks past the original window because they trust the documentation.
- Firm's account manager uses the StrikeLeap dashboard as the headline of their post-engagement debrief — wins three more food-industry RFPs from word-of-mouth.
Cross-dock warehouse picket, ILWU jurisdictional dispute
A West Coast logistics operator is hit by an ILWU informational picket affecting three cross-dock facilities. The firm needs to coordinate guards across all three sites and a roving supervisor in a vehicle. 62 guards at peak. Expected duration: 10–12 weeks. Sympathy walkouts at adjacent sites are likely.
Multi-site coordination on radios is breaking down — guards at Site A don't hear about a developing incident at Site C until the operator's COO calls the firm's owner directly. Owner needs a single-pane view of all three sites at once.
- Enterprise Event license ($18,629) — unlimited sites, unlimited officers, dedicated onboarding call, the full platform.
- Mobilization day at three sites in parallel — Check-In boards on PIN-locked kiosk tablets at each trailer. 62 officers cleared through onboarding gates the first morning.
- Auto-pair distributes 62 officers across two adjacent hotels — gender-blocked, role-grouped, shift-aligned.
- Cross-site dashboard surfaces incident counts and supervisor-request queues across all three locations in real time.
- Roving supervisor uses the StrikeLeap dashboard from a vehicle tablet — scans post QRs to confirm visits at each site.
- Push-to-talk voice channel is partitioned per-site, with a Supervisor Channel that spans all three.
- Per-diem ledger tracks 62 officers' arrival/departure ranges; weekly dispersals locked and stamped.
- Payroll preview rolls up hours + per-diem per officer every Friday; CSV export, payroll-ready.
- Client portal links shared with the operator's labor counsel — they pull live incident feeds and receive the daily report every night, no StrikeLeap login.
- Average incident-to-supervisor-acknowledgment time drops from 8 min (prior engagement, no software) to 47 seconds.
- Operator extends the firm's contract to cover two additional facilities preemptively before the strike spreads.
- Litigation pack at strike-end is 312 pages; opposing counsel withdraws three of four challenged incidents after the exhibit binder is produced.
Hospital network nurses' strike
A hospital system enters a 7-day nurses' strike across 4 facilities. The firm is brought in for site security around emergency room entrances, ambulance bays, and staff parking. 44 guards. The duration is fixed at 7 days but escalation to a longer strike is possible.
Sensitive environment — patient-facing entries cannot be visibly fortified, but the firm still needs to deter blocking of ambulance access and document every interaction in case of litigation from striking nurses or arriving patients.
- Enterprise Event license ($18,629) — 4 sites, sensitive-environment configuration.
- Mobilization day clears 44 officers — drug-test gate is the single mobilization test, no per-shift re-screen on rotation.
- Auto-pair places officers in hotel rooms walking distance to the four facilities.
- Ambulance bay posts get a quick 'clear' tap that auto-files a Crowd Update with photo — no friction during emergency arrivals.
- Officers file incidents from their phones with photo + narrative + GPS. Evidence Coordinator triages across all four sites in one queue.
- Hospital risk-management team gets a daily PDF situation report at 0700, emailed automatically through the configured distribution list.
- Voice channel listen-only is granted to the hospital's labor counsel — they monitor the perimeter without a StrikeLeap login.
- Strike resolves on day 6 with zero ambulance-access disruptions on record.
- Hospital network signs a multi-year master service agreement covering future labor actions.
- StrikeLeap exports are used by hospital legal as the primary evidence pack for two patient-injury suits unrelated to the strike — incidental but useful.
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The scenarios in this document are illustrative composites. No single customer, plant, hospital, or operator is depicted. Names and identifying details are not real.