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Friday, October 19, 2012

British Museum workers vote for strike action

LONDON (Reuters) - British cleaners at one of the world's most popular museums have voted to strike over the transfer of their jobs to private companies, their unions said on Friday. Unions for workers at the British Museum in London said the date for a walkout had not been decided, but that it would close down parts of a cultural mecca which draws five million visitors a year to see such treasures as the Rosetta Stone, ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon, Egyptian mummies and much more. ...

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