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Petition update, 26 June 2009

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We the undersigned would like to express our concern about staff relations at the National Museums of Science and Industry which includes The Science Museum, The National Railway Museum and the National Media Museum at Bradford. While public sector workers have had below-inflation pay offers inflicted by this government, the local situation at NMSI is considerably worse. Pay scales have been frozen at the top for two years, and at the bottom for four years, resulting in many staff getting derisory non-consolidated pay awards at a time of high inflation. Pay awards for many of those meeting expectations have been 1% in total this year. Negotiations on all substantial matters have reached stalemate with management simply imposing their will. The unions have had no effective input and may as well be unrecognised. The only tool remaining is industrial action which is damaging for the institution and its staff. We ask that unions can act effectively and that staff are not subjected to derisory increases based on an unaccountable performance system. The staff are concerned that the institution is being damaged by management’s approach.

Current signatories

Rob Skitmore, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Jane Wess
• John Underwood
• Ian Underwood
• Peter Tajasque
• Dennis Kelles-Krause
• Chris Wright
• Michael Bowen
• Lyudmila Baranova
• Alexandra White
• Scott Mckenzie-Cook
• Emily Lange
• Arjinder Nirwal
• Mark Steed
• Derek Brain
• Helen Peavitt
• Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
• Beverley Cole
• Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/noavspeedcameras/)
• shaun houldridge
• Jenny Jackson
• Darren Hopkins
• kelly
• Colin Divall
• Adrian Whicher
• Stewart Emmens
• kevin carlin
• Peter Turvey
• Dennis Barnfield
• Flavio Ferrari
• Theo Boyce
• Martin Bashforth
• Janet Marshall
• Mr Paul Vella
• Alan Leighton
• Charles McKenzie
• andrew mcdougall
• David Houston
• Khadija Khan
• Joanna Pearson
• Mark McCubbin
• Michelle Foggett
• barnaby salton
• Sam Spicer
• Kellie Henry
• Nigel Green
• Richard Pering
• Nadia Tottingham
• Jammie Williams
• Ronan Bullock
• Alastair Hendry
• Richard Sargent
• Nora Maddock
• Kris Finney
• helen nicholas
• Caroline Ross
• Rachel Heilbron
• Hugh Caffrey
• Raphael Larizza
• Andy Bye
• Gilly Tajasque
• Kathryn Powell
• Michaela Walsh
• Maggie Gaskell
• Anne Prugnon
• Andrew Peter Mooney
• Mark Fisher
• Lynda Sharp
• Beth Hawkins
• Paul Thompson
• Barbara Binder
• Josh Barnbrook
• Clara Paillard
• Helen Dodd
• Linda Wall
• Alice Pinto
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• Tessa Pinto
• Teresa Teixeira
• Sue Dalton
• Alison Conboy
• Antony Francis
• Duncan Forbes
• Sarah Paterson
• Stephen White
• Emma Dwyer
• Jo Saull
• Bruno Barber
• Stephen Foulger
• Richard Salt
• Alison Telfer
• Johnny Stewart
• Paul Noon
• Dai hudd
• Kurt Hunter-Mann
• Beryl Brine
• colin white
• Roy Stephenson
• Sadie Watson
• Paul Cornish
• Wendy Foulger
• Julie Robertshaw
• Vince Butler
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