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The Natural History Museum in central London
OUTSOURCED security guards at the Natural History and Science museums have overwhelmingly voted to strike, their union announced today.
The United Voices of the World (UVW) members are demanding a proper pay rise, having only been offered £13.15 an hour, which they described as “too little, too late” after years of real-terms pay cuts.
The security guards had been earning £11.95 per hour until this month, only 51p above the minimum wage.
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’