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Job centre security guards across the country – including in Kent – will take to the picket line for the fourth time today in a dispute over pay and conditions. Members of the GMB union, which are employed by G4S, will walk out today (May 28) for 24 hours amid claims of a real term pay cut that has seen 90 per cent of them earn just the minimum wage. Staff working at Chatham’s Jobcentre will hold a protest outside The Brook, opposite the Pentagon, from 8.30am. They will be joined by colleagues from neighbouring branches such as Maidstone. One member, who has worked in his security role for 13 …