After a decade of austerity, workers in the cultural sector are striking over poor pay. Andrew Kersley examines this new wave of unionisation.
As hundreds of thousands of teachers, civil servants and academics walked out of their jobs on strike in February, something equally historic happened outside the British Museum.
A walkout of staff frustrated at low wages shut the museum down for several days. It was the first strike action at the museum in a decade, and by far the biggest and most effective in recent memory.
Museum workers may not be the first that come to mind when people imagine workplace exploitation, but those staff at the British Museum are part of a new wave of once unorganised culture workers who have been joining trade unions at an astonishing rate...Keep reading on Byline Times.
As hundreds of thousands of teachers, civil servants and academics walked out of their jobs on strike in February, something equally historic happened outside the British Museum.
A walkout of staff frustrated at low wages shut the museum down for several days. It was the first strike action at the museum in a decade, and by far the biggest and most effective in recent memory.
Museum workers may not be the first that come to mind when people imagine workplace exploitation, but those staff at the British Museum are part of a new wave of once unorganised culture workers who have been joining trade unions at an astonishing rate...Keep reading on Byline Times.