Former coalminers join fellow museum staff in strike over pay which is due to last until mid-September
“Who’d have thought we’d be doing this again?” Arthur Scargill said earlier this week, raising a laugh from the ex-miners standing in the picket line outside the National Coal Mining Museum.
Staff at the Wakefield museum, many of them former coalminers, have walked out in a dispute over pay, and were joined on Thursday by the now 87-year-old former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/23/miners-from-1980s-strikes-return-to-picket-line-at-mining-museum
Author : Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent
Publish date : 2025-08-23 05:00:00
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