British Library closed by strike action for first time

To follow up on Ryan\’s story, The Guardian Says the British Library was closed by strike action for first time.

The 24-hour closure was over the library\’s refusal to raise a 4% pay award to staff. These include the library assistants – some of them earning only £10,000 to £15,000 a year.The strike closed the new St Pancras building\’s total of six reading rooms and a similar room at the library\’s outstation in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire. Scholars at a third centre, the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, north London, were only able to work if they had ordered material in advance.

July 30, 2002 by Uncategorized 0

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