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Outsourced museum security guards to strike for fair pay
The Natural History Museum in central London
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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.
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