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18.06.2024 - 12:11 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A Jobcentre security guard has said he ‘can’t afford to retire’ and is ‘struggling’ to pay his mortgage after not receiving a pay rise in two years.
Christopher Loftus, who works at the Jobcentre on Union Street, Oldham, and is a member of the GMB Union, is one of more than 1,400 security guards across the UK employed by the security company G4S who have walked out this week in a dispute over pay.
The 64-year-old said: “It’s been well over two years with no pay rise and we’re on basic pay. Everything's gone up but the wages haven’t gone up. I’ve been doing this job since 2009.”
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On what impact getting a pay rise would have, Christopher, from Oldham, said: “Financially I’d be better off - I could pay my mortgage, I’m struggling to pay that at the minute. I can’t even afford to retire.”
The security guards are staging a week-long strike until Saturday (June 22) in ‘anger at pay rates that see 90 per cent of them paid just the minimum wage’, according to the GMB union.
Eamon O'Hearn, GMB national officer, said: “Jobcentre security guards are punched, attacked and savaged in the neck by dogs – just for carrying out their duties.
“Yet 90 per cent of them struggle to get by on the minimum wage, while G4S trouser millions from the DWP. It’s abhorrent and these strikes will keep escalating unless G4S agrees to pay them a wage they can live”.
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union announced earlier this month that 200 of its members would walk out from June 17 to June 23, in a coordinated action with GMB union colleagues. Members of both unions are employed by G4S to provide security to keep employees and claimants safe.
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