National Museums Liverpool Pay Dispute
MP backs museum staff over ‘lowest pay’
Jul 24 2007
by Ian Hernon, Liverpool Echo
A dispute involving 550 Liverpool museum staff could undermine next year’s capital of culture, MPs and unions have warned.
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City museums hit by strike over pay
Jul 25 2007
by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post
Around half of Liverpool’s museums staff are to walk out on strike today in a row over a pay offer, which unions claim is an “insult” in the run-up to the city’s Capital of Culture year.
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Museum staff strike over pay row
Jul 25 2007
BBC NEWS | Merseyside
More than 250 staff from Liverpool's museums and galleries are on strike in a row over pay.
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Mersey museum staff on the picket lines in strike over pay
Jul 25 2007
by Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo
Museum staff manned picket lines today in a strike over pay.
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Saturday, 20 October 2007
Fourth strike day at city museums
More than 250 staff from Liverpool's museums and galleries have staged their fourth one-day strike in a dispute over pay agreements.
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This is the fourth one-day strike in
three months
Conservators and administrators as well as archivists and other specialist staff are involved in the row.
They claim an imposed pay offer is less than half the rate of inflation.
Six sites of National Museums Liverpool (NML) have been affected by the one-day strike action, which is the fourth in three months.
Source: BBC News | Merseyside
Egyptian tombs mummies and artefacts
ONE of the finest collections of Egyptian tombs, mummies and artefacts in the world will open its doors in Liverpool today.
Among the 1,500 exhibits on show is one of the world?s great treasures ? a vividly-coloured belt of the last great Pharaoh, Rameses III ? which is on display for the first time since before the Second World War.
Amazingly, the exhibition owes much to legendary nurse Florence Nightingale and the real-life explorer and author who helped spawn the Indiana Jones character.
Curator Ashley Cooke, whose PhD in Egyptian tombs comes from the University of Liverpool, said: ?No other civilisation in world history has captured the imagination quite like Ancient Egypt, the first nation state.
?Today their wonderful, haunting tombs and all they left behind continue to exert an endless fascination. The World Museum Liverpool is in a prime position to tell the story as we have one of the finest collections anywhere.?
The collection come from some odd sources.
A substantial number of the artefacts at the museum once belonged to Lady with the Lamp Florence Nightingale.
In 1949, the museum was trying to get its collection together again after a World War Two bomb wreaked havoc on the building.
An appeal was answered by those in charge of the pioneering nurse?s collection that she had obtained about 100 years earlier.
Other items are part of the legacy left behind by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, the swashbuckling author and tomb raider behind King Solomon?s Mines and the fictional character that spawned Indiana Jones.
Grippingly, the exhibition includes the mummy said to have inspired Sir Rider Haggard?s classic fantasy adventure She, about a beautiful queen who lives 2,000 years waiting for her lost love, before shrivelling up into a pile of dust.
ANCIENT Egypt is at World Museum Liverpool, William Brown Street, now and admission is free.
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