Science Museum staff in Friday 13th walkout
9 June 2008
The staff involved work for the NMSI in the Science Museum, London, the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, the National Railway Museum, York, and the Science Museum Swindon in Wiltshire where starting salaries are as low as £11,342.
The pay offer which was delayed by over a year means that most PCS members will receive less than the headline amount of 3% for both years.
The strike action is expected to disrupt preparations for a royal visit to National Railway Museum in York the following day.
The announcement comes on the same day as PCS members from across the civil service take part in today’s Speak Up For Public Services event in Westminster.
The lobby and rally organised by the TUC will see public servants coming together to call for fair pay and lobby over the future of public services.
Speaking at the rally Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, is expected to say: “Real term pay cuts for Science Museum staff, whose salaries can be as low as £11,342, are completely unacceptable and will force down the living standards of a committed, hardworking workforce.
"It is a picture that the government seems happy to replicate across the rest of the civil and public service, with its misguided and discredited policy of below inflation pay, which is hitting some of the lowest paid.
"Science Museum staff and other PCS members are joining colleagues from across the public sector today in calling for a fair and just wage. Faced with job cuts, dogmatic privatisation and the insult of below inflation pay, civil and public servants are saying to government that enough is enough.
"Now is the time to start valuing the millions of public sector workers and now is the time to review its policy of below inflation pay."
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