Police were called to a picket line at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield, west Yorkshire, this week amid an ongoing str...

Police were called to a picket line at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield, west Yorkshire, this week amid an ongoing strike over wages. More than 40 workers, including mine guides who are veterans of the 1984 miners’ strike, have been taking industrial action since 20 August after rejecting a pay offer from the museum. The workers' union, Unison, has accused the museum of attempting to disperse a lawful picket line after West Yorkshire Police attended the scene on Wednesday 3 September. In a statement, the union said a private security company employed by the museum during the strike had called police to remove the picket line from outside the museum's main entrance, on what was claimed to be “museum land”. Unison said it had provided museum management with documents from Wakefield Council showing the picket was held on public land. It said the officers who attended “confirmed to the private security firm employed by the museum that the picket line and actions of striking workers are perfectly legal”. The museum disputes that this was the reason the police were called. It says that concerns had been “raised by an independent security company regarding ongoing behaviour on the picket line”. https://lnkd.in/g-4NtKBR