Job Centre security guards will walk out for the fourth time today
Worker are angry pay rates which see them earn less that the cleaners.
Security guards employed by G4S across the UK are set to walk out from 00:01 28 May until 23:59 on 29 May over a real terms pay cut that has seen 90 per cent of them paid just the minimum wage.
DWP has handed G4S £211 million by the Department for Work and Pensions since Dec 2022, despite employment costs being just £161 during the same period.
Eamon O’Hearn, GMB National Officer, said:
“These workers do a very dangerous, difficult job.
“Yet they are paid the same as the cleaners who don’t have to deal with terrifying hostility from some customers.
“Ninety per cent of these security guards earn just the minimum wage and can barely keep a roof over their heads.
“It’s shameful; G4S must do the decent thing and make these workers and offer they can live on.”
