Almost 1,500 cash handlers working for G4S and Loomis are ready to strike over pay.
In separate consultative ballots across both companies, more than 90 per cent said they were ready to walk out after bosses announced pay freezes
Almost 95 per cent also rejected the offer, which represents a massive real terms pay cut in the face of rising inflation.
GMB Members working for G4S Cash and Loomis deliver millions of pounds each week across the country to banks and businesses – a dangerous job which leaves them open to attack.
If the workers went on strike, ATMs might be left without cash, while airports may run out of foreign currency.
Eamon O’Hearn, GMB National Officer, said:
“GMB members working for G4S Cash and Loomis do difficult, dangerous jobs.
“Yet bosses reward them with a real terms pay cut.
“These companies plead poverty, but workers know they have deliberately raced to the bottom on wages – this looks like more corporate penny-pinching.
“More talks are scheduled and GMB urges bosses to make an offer our members can live with - and which averts disruptive strike action.”
