Museum Staff Walkouts

Two hundred specialist staff who work for the National Museum of Science and Industry, including museum curators, conservators and managers, have voted for a series of one-day walkouts. They are incensed that they still haven't received a pay offer due last April, in effect a 10-month pay freeze. If the walkouts go ahead, the museums that will be hit are the Science Museum in London, National Railway Museum in York, National Media Museum in Bradford and the Science Museum in Swindon.