Workers at the Museum of Science and Industry could strike over summer
It's over a dispute about pay
Workers Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry have voted to go on strike in a dispute over pay.
The Prospect union said its members backed walkouts by 4-1 in protest at an imposed wage rise of 1.5%.
The strike could affect the busy summer season, but Union chiefs said they will seek meetings with management to try to resolve the dispute and avoid strikes.
Negotiations officer Sharon Brown said: "This is a very strong result in favour of industrial action and shows the strength of feeling within the Science Museum Group.
"Our members in SMG love what they do but they cannot carry on with year after year of real-terms pay cuts.
"SMG covers some of the top tourist attractions in the country with more than five million people visiting its sites in 2017-18, more than three million at the Science Museum alone.
"People will be astonished at how poorly its staff are paid, especially when they see that the director has seen his pay increase by a third in just four years. At the bottom of the pay scale workers are not even earning the Real Living Wage.
"SMG management need to sit down with us and come up with a fair offer so we can end this dispute and get on with delivering world class attractions.''
The dispute involves workers at the Science Museum in London, the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, the National Railway Museum in York, Blythe House in London, and the National Collections Centre in Wroughton, Wiltshire.
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