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A Jobcentre Plus sign, September 16, 2014
HUNDREDS of jobcentre security guards are starting seven days of strike action tomorrow in protest at being “underpaid and undervalued” while facing abuse and threats of violence at work.
The guards are employed by contractor G4S at 600 jobcentres and Department for Work and Pensions offices nationwide.
Members of general union GMB and Civil Service union PCS are striking together.
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’