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Tate staff stage week-long strike over 'insulting' pay increases
The Guardian
|November 28, 2025
Staff at Tate sites in the UK are staging a seven-day strike over pay and conditions at the arts institution, with some saying they have had to resort to using food banks.
The strike is scheduled to run until 2 December and coincides with the opening of Tate Britain’s Turner and Constable exhibition.
Yesterday, the second day of the strike action, staff on a picket line at Tate Britain held signs that read: “Treat staff like art! Handle with care”, “Goodwill don’t pay the bills” and “Director’s bonus = my salary”. Another placard, styled as a Guardian review, read: “Tate Gallery review - a portrait of the staff in turmoil.”
At Tate Britain’s main entrance, a notice warned visitors that while the galleries were open, “some spaces may need to close at short notice”.
Staff outside said two restructures in five years, redundancies and below-inflation pay rises had badly damaged morale.
This story is from the November 28, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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