Workers are taking part in the final day of a five-day strike today and one curator said they had resorted to industrial action to 'get our voices heard'.
Museum workers in Glasgow could take further strike action if proposed job cuts aren’t reversed, a union rep warned, as staff protested outside the city chambers.
At the protest, one striking curator said workers had resorted to industrial action to “get our voices heard” and “make the point about what the museums mean to people”. “If they want to avoid more strike action then they need to get a settlement to the dispute. They need to put more money on the table.”
Alison Brown, a curator, said: “The cuts that are being made are to 30% of effectively the backroom staff, the professional, specialist, technical staff. We are the lifeblood of the museum service.Unison wants more national funding to be provided to Glasgow’s museums and Ms Brown said: “Our collection is the largest local authority collection in the UK, it is of a national level.”
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