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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.
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
Almost half of universities face deficits, merger mania is taking hold, and massive fee hikes that will lock out working-class students are on the horizon, write RUBEN BRETT, PAUL WHITEHOUSE and DAN GRACE