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By Admin19th March 20130Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

“Sleepless Nights” as G4S Asylum Housing Contract Falls Apart

At a recent G4S Asylum Housing “Roadshow” event in Leeds, G4S Director Steven Small was eager to reassure his critical audience that he’d suffered “sleepless nights” over the disastrous G4S COMPASS asylum housing contract. Were…

By Admin22nd February 20130Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

Wide Support for Inquiry into G4S Asylum Contracts

SYMAAG and the Yorkshire-plus No to G4S group have found wide support for an inquiry into G4S’ contracts for housing, transport and initial accommodation in what it calls the “asylum markets”. We are calling…

By Admin13th February 20130Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

G4S “Roadshow” a Write-Off

Latest News: The last night of any tour is usually the climactic highpoint. Not this one: A request to attend the Newcastle “Roadshow” scheduled for March 28th brought this response from the office of G4S…

By Admin21st December 20120Campaigns, G4S, General

10 reasons to vote for G4S as the World’s Worst Company…and why G4S disagree!

Security giant G4S rejects ‘World’s Worst Company’ nomination John Grayson and Adri Nieuwhof Open Democracy 23 January 2013 The world’s leading security company, G4S, says it doesn’t deserve to be nominated for Public Eye’s World’s…

By Admin26th November 20120Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

G4S Break Asylum Housing Contract: Investigate G4S!

Once again, private security company G4S, has failed to meet its obligations to fulfill a contract paid for by public money. This time it’s the COMPASS contract to re-house people seeking asylum in Yorkshire and…

By Admin26th October 20120Campaigns, G4S

Don’t Invest in G4S: Pension Fund Protest

SYMAAG and Barnsley Asylum Support Group activists picketed the Annual Meeting of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund WYPF) in Huddersfield on Friday 26th October with the call DO NOT INVEST IN G4S. WYPF has significant investments…

By Admin4th October 20120Campaigns, G4S

National Stop G4S Campaign formed: latest report

‘The company you need to target is G4S’. Opponents form strategic alliance Critics of the world’s biggest security company are banding together. A report from the Stop G4S Convergence campaign. Sixty people came…

By Admin23rd August 20120Asylum, Campaigns, G4S, Sheffield

Asylum Housing Campaign Guide: Challenging Instructions to Move Home – UPDATED

It’s everyone’s right to live in decent, suitable housing, regardless of their immigration status or where they were born. Many people seeking asylum in South Yorkshire will be asked to move house, sometimes to a…

By Admin20th August 20120Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

G4S Asylum Housing: Lowering Standards, Demolishing Accountability

Note: UKBA statement on transport of people’s belongings issued 1st August 2012. We have been finding cases where people have been told they cannot transport more than 2 bags of their belongings when being moved. In…

By Admin13th August 20120Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

G4S in the “Asylum Market”

At a G4S-requested meeting with SYMAAG back in February 2012, their representatives explained that G4S’ “primary concern” was to make money for their shareholders in what they called “the asylum market”. It’s 6 months into…

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