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Miners from 1980s strikes return to picket line … at mining museum


Former coalminers join fellow museum staff in strike over pay which is due to last until mid-September

“Who’d have thought we’d be doing this again?” Arthur Scargill said earlier this week, raising a laugh from the ex-miners standing in the picket line outside the National Coal Mining Museum.

Staff at the Wakefield museum, many of them former coalminers, have walked out in a dispute over pay, and were joined on Thursday by the now 87-year-old former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers.

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Author : Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent

Publish date : 2025-08-23 05:00:00

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