Industrial Relations At National Museum Of Science And Industry

EDM number 371 in 2008-09, proposed by John McDonnell on 18/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Industrial relations, Museums and galleries and Pay.

That this House expresses its concern over the collapse of effective industrial relations at the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI), which includes the Science Museum in London, the National Railway Museum in York, and the National Media Museum in Bradford, where negotiations on all substantial matters have reached stalemate and management are simply imposing their will; notes that while public sector workers have had below inflation pay offers, the local situation at NMSI is considerably worse as pay scales have been frozen at the top for two years and at the bottom for four years, resulting in many staff receiving derisory non-consolidated pay awards at a time of high inflation, in contrast to substantial bonuses paid to some senior NMSI staff in 2007-08, and that pay awards for many staff who are meeting expectations have been less than one per cent. in total this year; and calls on the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to intervene urgently and restore a viable structure of industrial relations, involving the participation of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, if necessary, to resolve the present dispute and bring an end to minimal pay increases based on an unaccountable and biased performance appraisal system, so that the damage presently being done to staff pay and morale is not allowed to undermine NMSI's role as the guardian and interpreter of the nation's industrial and scientific heritage.

This motion has been signed by a total of 52 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.