G4S – PAY FOR YOUR OWN ‘PAY-RISE’

Dear members, 

In yesterday’s email from G4S you can now see for yourselves the pressure G4S have been putting your GMB Reps under in negotiations.

G4S claims to care about you, yet at the same time are also proposing to withhold backpay unless you do what they want.

G4S has already admitted that the original one-year offer was ‘disappointing’, yet the two-year proposal is only ‘affordable’ because it combines that ‘disappointing’ offer and uses members backpay to fund the second year ‘rate’.

Members can see for themselves the significant reduction in backpay in the table below when you compare the offer rejected in December and the two-year proposal.

That offer is only ‘affordable’ because by staggering the increases over the two years G4S save on backpay, but it still leaves members just £0.23p above the minimum wage, down from £0.30p, meaning G4S still expect members to go backwards.

The offer also does nothing to address the cost-of-living crisis that G4S admitted they knew members were experiencing in 2022/23.

Your LNC were unanimous that it was not appropriate to expect members to forgo money just to fund a ‘rise’ that DWP and G4S should be paying for.

We remain committed to negotiations and are expecting G4S to return next Tuesday with a response to our position.

At the end of the day, G4S is clearly worried about the impact of your strike action, if it wasn’t it wouldn’t be acting in a manner that smacks of desperation.

Once again thank you for your continued support.

Yours in union,

GMB LNC Reps and GMB National Officer

COMPARISON BETWEEN DECEMBER 2023 AND APRIL 2024 OFFER