MORE than 1,500 Jobcentre security guards begin a week-long strike today after bosses refused to meet their union to discuss a pay dispute.

The workers are employed by notorious transnational security privateer G4S on behalf of the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP); some 90 per cent of the workers are paid just the minimum wage.

G4S is refusing to meet GMB without setting preconditions, the union said.