Workers at National Museum to striker over Easter weekend
Workers at the national museum in Edinburgh plan to strike over the Easter weekend.
Workers at the national museum in Edinburgh plan to strike over the Easter weekend.
The action by staff at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh is the latest in a long-running dispute over weekend pay.
Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union say they will continue to strike on each of the five weekends following Easter as the row deepens.
PCS wants the museum's management to reintroduce weekend working allowances for all staff.
It says a ''two-tier workforce'' sees long-serving workers earning an extra allowance for working weekends which is not applied to the newer and lowest-paid staff.
Scottish secretary Lynn Henderson said: Our members at the museum are angry that this dispute has dragged on so long.
These low-paid workers are withdrawing their labour in frustration at their management's intransigence and the two-faced hypocrisy of SNP leaders to support weekend premiums for shop workers whilst denying the same allowance to public-sector workers employed by their own administration.''