Over 2,000 security officers could be on strike all over New Jersey within weeks.

The local 32BJ union wants higher wages and better training for their officers, but they said they’ve only been met with 'no' so far.

Union members will vote on whether they plan to strike in the coming weeks.

"Having to put up with a lot of combatives that come through, having to put up with the stressful environment that some of the employees here put us through, it's not really worth the pay, it's not," one member told News 12.

Officers are currently making $17 per hour.

"We are at the table with Allied, with Securitas, and about a dozen other security contractors. Our security contract...expired on Sept. 15," state director and vice president for 32BJ in New Jersey Ana Maria Hill said.

Union members are negotiating for what they believe are fair changes, like guaranteed yearly raises, access to more training and legal aid.

"We are asking for the training funds so workers can be properly trained to do their jobs, and that is not happening as we speak," Hill said. "If security officers are making the bare minimum. If members are getting paid more, they stay longer and they last longer because they value their job," Hill said.

The training and legal funds would cost an extra ten cents an hour per member, according to Hill. She said the hourly raise would total out to about $1.25 per hour every year.

"We deal with so many different things every day as far as dealing with gunshot victims coming in, crowd control of individuals coming in to visit their loved ones that were wounded by gunfire, even CRTs. We have to assist medical staff to restrain and medicate patients, and we don't get the proper training to deal with these types of situations," another union member said.

Allied Universal, one of the major contractors that employs 32BJ members, said in a statement, "Allied Universal has good working relationships with unions around the country, including the SEIU, and we are engaged in good faith negotiations with the SEIU to renew the existing collective bargaining agreement in Newark."