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Workers at British Library Set to StrikeA one-week strike was set to begin March 1 at the British Library, as library assistants prepared last week to force the library to close over a pay dispute and working conditions they call “horrendous.” The Financial Times reported February 23 that managers have said they will close the reading rooms rather than struggle with insufficient staff. The workers say they plan to follow the strike with 24-hour work stoppages throughout the month. The assistants claim that their salaries are bearing the burden for the library's financial shortfalls and that they are unfairly blamed for the slowness of a mechanical book retrieval system, which makes it impossible to retrieve books for readers within the 30-minute target time. The strike action comes just eight months after the opening of the library's new £520-million facility at St. Pancras. Posted March 1, 1999. |
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