Museum workers to strike over pay

U.K.

Friday 13 June will be the first one-day strike in a possible series of stoppages by over 400 staff working for the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI). The members of the Prospect and PCS unions voted overwhelmingly for action in response to the employer's latest pay offer. There has been an almost one-year delay before the NMSI offered 1.5% plus performance-related pay increases for 2008 and only performance-related increases for 2009. The unions point out that 1.5% is even below the government's 2% guideline that public sector unions have already rejected as inadequate.
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