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Happy May Day!

Poster, 'Crush Anti Union Laws', by Ken Sprague, printed 1971

Available to view on request in our Prints and Drawings Study Room

If you've got questions about Unions and museums, please ask!

Here's some union accounts to follow (not exhaustive!), do add more in the comments! PCS Culture Group Prospect Union Art Workers Union 🖼️❤️✊ Trades Union Congress UCU Unite the union: join a union UNISON - UK's largest union National Education Union Bectu UVW Designers + Cultural Workers

No one likes being called out but it's an opportunity to do better. We are looking forward to seeing the changes that Heritage Trust Network make in their job postings in future.

Up and about early with PCS Culture Group organising at the IWM (fighting against derecognition).

Lovely weather for ducks 😏

And PCS Union ponchos 😎

SERTUC CLIC Laurie Heselden
PCSLondon&SouthEast

Fantastic piece about strikes at NML sites + insight from our incredible PCS Liverpool Museums reps, drawing connections with the wider funding crisis in the culture sector. Department for Culture, Media and Sport must ensure our museums are properly funded and our workers are properly paid

tribunemag.co.uk/2024/04/praisi…

Why did you join the union?

PCS Culture Group PCS Union Trades Union Congress

Have a read of what the The RSA have been up to. We heard they are *very* unhappy about this article...

National Museums Liverpool is refusing to pay its staff the £1500 cost-of-living payment they're owed. These workers are struggling to make ends meet. Show solidarity and send a message to the CEO

PCS Culture Group #NMLPayUp National Museums Liverpool PCS Liverpool Museums megaphone.org.uk/petitions/nati…

With our membership increasing and getting stronger, there's never been a better time to join #PCS in your workplace mypcs.pcs.org.uk/onlinejoiningf…

A picket line is not complete without Chip!

Solidarity to ASLEF members striking over the next couple of weeks. 💪💪

Why did you join the union?

PCS Culture Group PCS Union Trades Union Congress

Striking members of PCS Union will be joined tomorrow by Kim Johnson MP for Liverpool Riverside, as results of further negotiations are announced

Read more: pcs.org.uk/news-events/ne…

#PCSonStrike #NMLPayUp

Congratulations National Museums Liverpool on your exciting £58 mil revamp🍾placenorthwest.co.uk/gallery-design… anyone going to the consultation tomorrow (4.4.24) 12-4:30 liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/consultation make sure to say hi to our PCS Liverpool Museums strikers who are just after the £1500 payment they are due 👋

Support PCS Liverpool Museums #strike
PCS Union PCS North West PCS Culture Group
#NMLpayup #PCSonStrike #NSSN

Britain should stop arming Israel, says former national security adviser

Lord Ricketts says further steps needed to put pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu after seven aid workers killed in Gaza

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

We should be increasing funding to museums and libraries not cutting it. Please sign and share the petition below to tell the government to protect these Welsh cultural gems.

petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/2460…

Can confirm, trade unions are the official workplace Keepers of the Tea. That's why our hair is so big...it's full of secrets

Welcome to Nicholas Cullinan, new Director of the British Museum. He's got a challenging job ahead of him. We hope he'll put the wellbeing of staff at the heart of his work.

And hot tip if you want to know where the bodies are buried: meet the union, we *always* have the tea ☕

MuseumHour Trade Unions (e.g. PCS Culture Group) advocate for museums staff (fair pay and good working conditions). They are the ones that curate, educate, welcome, clean, protect etc. museums