STAFF at the British Museum are set to strike for six days next month as part of a national campaign over Civil Service pay, pensions, job security and redundancy terms, their union warned today.

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) said its members at the central London institution will withdraw their labour between July 11 and 16.

Despite the government’s belated recommendation that all employers pay staff a one-off cost-of-living payment of £1,500, the museum is “currently refusing to do so,” the union said.