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A Job Centre Plus shop in central Portsmouth, Hampshire, February 11, 2009
THE government is being urged to help resolve a dispute as more than 1,000 job centre security guards are due to strike for a fourth day today.
Members of the GMB employed by security outsourcing giant G4S will walk out; the union says 90 per cent of the guards are paid the minimum wage despite the demands of their job.
The GMB has called on the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) to step in ahead of the next strike dates on May 28 and 29.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
Our members face daily abuse, being spat at, sometimes even deadly assaults, and employers fail to take the issue seriously despite the increasing danger, writes RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY
