More than 200 museum workers to strike over pay

[Omaha Steve]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/7251672.stm

More than 200 specialist staff at four national museums have voted to take strike action in a row over pay.

Members of the Prospect union at the four sites of the National Museum of Science and Industry voted for a series of one-day walkouts.


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The Science Museum in London, National Railway Museum in York, National Media Museum in Bradford and the Science Museum in Swindon are affected.

Prospect said its members had not received a pay offer due last April.

The staff, including museum curators, conservators and managers, voted for the walkouts by a majority of nine to one.

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