G4S security guards to continue action for better pay

Our members are out for a week from Monday (23), having already taken more than 30 days’ action. G4S members, who help ensure safety in jobcentres, have only been offered a pay rise that is just 32p above the National Living Wage while G4S rakes in millions. Our members are not prepared to sit back and accept this.

PCS membership has more than trebled during the dispute and members have been holding well-supported picket lines outside jobcentres, many of which have been forced to close during the strike action.

Support the picket lines

There will be picket lines at the following locations next week:

Monday

• Birkenhead – Brunswick House, Price Street, 8am
• Bradford – Westfield House, 9am
• Grimsby - Bridge House, Victoria Street, 8-10.30am
• Handsworth – Jobcentre Plus, 9.30-11am
• Middleton – Jobcentre Plus, Othen House, Oldham Road, 7am
• Oldham – Tweedale House, Union Street, 9am
• Pudsey jobcentre, 8.30am
• St Helens - Gregson House, 8.15-10am
• Sheffield - Hillsborough Jobcentre, Cavalry and Lancer Court, 639-641 Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 2GG

Tuesday

• Birkenhead – Brunswick House, Price Street, 8am
• Bradford – Westfield House, 9am
• Grimsby - Bridge House, Victoria Street, 8-10.30am
• Middleton – Jobcentre Plus, Othen House, Oldham Road, 7am
• Oldham – Tweedale House, Union Street, 9am
• St Helens - Gregson House, 8.15-10am
• Sheffield - Bailey Court Jobcentre, 112 West Street, Sheffield, S1 3SY
• Walsall - Bridle Court Jobcentre Plus – 8.30-10am.

Wednesday

• Birkenhead – Brunswick House, Price Street, 8am
• Bradford – Westfield House, 9am
• Grimsby - Bridge House, Victoria Street, 8-10.30am
• Hanley - Jobcentre, Huntbach Street, 10am
• Middleton – Jobcentre Plus, Othen House, Oldham Road, 7am
• Oldham – Tweedale House, Union Street, 9am
• St Helens - Gregson House, 8.15-10am
• Sheffield - Cavendish Court, 9 Bank Street, Sheffield, S1 2DR.

Thursday

• Birkenhead – Brunswick House, Price Street, 8am
• Bradford – Westfield House, 9am
• Grimsby - Bridge House, Victoria Street, 8-10.30am
• Middleton – Jobcentre Plus, Othen House, Oldham Road, 7am
• Oldham – Tweedale House, Union Street, 9am
• St Helens - Gregson House, 8.15-10am
• Sheffield - Hartshead Square, 1 Hartshead Square, Sheffield, S1 2FD

Friday

• Birkenhead – Jobcentre Plus, Brunswick House, Price Street, 8am
• Bradford – Westfield House, 9am
• Grimsby - Bridge House, Victoria Street, 8-10.30am
• Middleton – Jobcentre Plus, Othen House, Oldham Road, 7am
• Oldham – Tweedale House, Union Street, 9am
• St Helens – Gregson House, 8.15-10am
• Sheffield - Kings Court, 80 Hanover Way, Sheffield, S3 7UF

Saturday

• Bradford – Westfield House, 9am
• Grimsby - Bridge House, Victoria Street, 8-10.30am

Vote in the ballot

PCS is running a consultative ballot which will be run by independent balloting organisation Civica Election Services to ensure a fair and democratic test of members' opinions on the pay offer.

The ballot runs until Friday (27 September) and is online for all G4S members that we hold an email address for. All other members will receive their ballot in the post.

The questions on the ballot are as follows:

• Do you reject the pay offer made by G4S?
• Are you prepared to take further strike action in support of better pay?

PCS is recommending that members reject the pay offer and indicate that they are prepared to take further strike action by voting YES/YES.

If you work on the G4S security contract in DWP and want to support the campaign, join PCS online.

PCS will continue to demand that the UK Government delivers on its commitment to “bring about the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation”.