Ms. Johnson explained that the union would try to persuade the building owner or property manager to use a unionized security force.
"The union is increasingly going for security force members because they have the janitorial staff and some of the cleaning staff, so it just makes sense that everybody has coverage," she said.
African Union (AU) troops from the 22,000-strong Amisom security force joined the Somali army in fighting the insurgents around parliament, an Amisom spokesman said.
In August he hired a private security force to patrol the violence-plagued high school, circumventing the teachers' union.
In the late 1980's, a member of the security force formed a small neo-Nazi group called the Alsatian Patriotic Union, known by its German initials, H.V.E.
An Amazigh security force has been formed.
The terms of the agreement required Senegal and The Gambia to take the following steps toward union: integrate their military and security forces; form an economic and monetary union; coordinate their foreign policies and communications; and establish confederal institutions.
Though looking to relinquish responsibility to Somali security forces, African Union forces (known as the African Union Mission in Somalia, or AMISOM) are there to support Somalia's new government, which won a national election in February.
