DWP MUST STEP IN AS JOB CENTRE SECURITY GUARDS STRIKE FOR FOURTH DAY – GMB

These workers are spat at, stabbed, hit with bottles and threatened with death while doing their job, says GMB Union

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) must step in to end a dispute which will see more than 1,000 job centre security guards strike for the fourth day today [Monday], GMB has said.

Security guards employed by G4S across the UK are set to walk out from 00:01 until 23:59 on 20 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.

GMB has now called on DWP to step in ahead of the next strike dates, May 28 and 29

Eamon O’Hearn, GMB National Officer, said:

“These workers are spat at, stabbed, hit with bottles and threatened with death while doing their job.

“Yet 90 per cent of them can barely put food on the table – earning just the minimum wage.

“G4S seems incapable of sorting this out; GMB calls on the DWP to step in and ask where the £211 million they’ve handed over has gone.”