SECURITY staff at government jobcentres have completed their fourth week of strike action over pay.

More than 1,500 members of general union GMB are challenging notorious security corporation G4S, which took over their contracts under Tory privatisation of public services.

In Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, unions mobilised to support the striking security staff on the picket line today.

Bob Stoker, secretary of Kirklees Trade Union Council, told the Morning Star: “It was a good turnout — university lecturers from UCU, Unite, teachers, shopworkers from Usdaw, everybody. It was great — very noisy.”

G4S was fined £40 million for fraud in 2020 after claiming payment for non-existent “tagging” of people released from jail under a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) contract.

The company claimed fees for tagging prisoners who were dead, had gone abroad or were back in prison.

Now the company is paid more millions in taxpayers’ cash to provide security at jobcentres while paying its workers the minimum wage.