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To: DWP and G4S
Please support G4S Security Guards in their fight for fair pay

Security guards - employed by private outsourcing giant G4S to work at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), are into their third month of strikes because of an on-going dispute over pay. In total, 90 per cent of the guards are now paid just the minimum wage.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has shelled out £211 million to G4S since December 2022 – despite staff costs being just £161 million during the same period, a difference of £50 million.
ACAS is attempting to arrange talks to settle the dispute, but both G4S and the DWP are refusing to participate.
G4S refuses to use some of the millions of pounds profit they have banked from Government contracts, instead they are offering guards a pay-freeze and a real terms pay cut.
If G4S can afford to pay for agency staff across the UK to undermine the strikes, then they can afford to resolve the dispute!
Why is this important?
- If the DWP and G4S want to end this dispute, they need to make sure security guards are paid enough to live on.
- G4S has been handed millions by the Government, yet our members can barely afford to feed their families.
- The work they do is hard; they are attacked with alarming regularity just for doing their job.
- Our members deserve a better deal - please support our campaign to make work better for G4S employees across the UK.