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BANKS, businesses and ATMs could be left without cash as more than 1,000 G4S workers vote to strike over a real-terms pay cut, GMB said today.
Union members who deliver money to companies such as banks NatWest, Lloyds and Santander, supermarkets Tesco and Asda, pub chain Wetherspoons, fast food giant McDonald’s and hotel chain Travelodge have voted to strike with a majority of 91 per cent, on a 59 per cent turnout.
This comes after being offered a deal as low as 1.4 per cent in some cases, while G4S’s directed competitor Loomis offered workers 4.6 per cent earlier this year, the union said.
GMB national officer Eamon O’Hearn said that workers doing a difficult and dangerous job are being offered a real-terms pay cut.
He added: “Thanks to G4S penny pinching, the public faces an Easter break where businesses and banks run out of cash, potentially causing major disruption.”
A G4S Cash Solutions UK spokesperson said: “We are continuing to engage with the GMB and hope to reach an amicable agreement without the need for industrial action.”
