JobCentre security guards announce 18 new strike days
PCS members employed by G4S at the DWP to take further action over pay
JobCentre security guards are to go on strike for a further eighteen days.
Around 200 Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union members have already taken seven days’ action in their pay dispute with G4S.
They will return to the picket lines outside Department for Work and Pensions buildings alongside colleagues from the GMB union from July 4-7, 15-21 and from July 29 to August 4.
Members of both unions are employed to provide essential security to keep DWP employees and claimants safe.
PCS general secretary Fran Heathcote said: “Our members are abused and threatened every day at work. They deserve better, and that begins with a fair pay rise that recognises the nature of the work they do.
“G4S can easily afford to give their workforce a pay rise. That they choose not to adds power to our argument to scrap outsourcing and bring all essential government services back in-house.”
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