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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent

HISTORICAL FACTS: Miners from 1980s strikes return to picket line at mining museum - The Untold Story

Russ Kear
Retired miner Russ Kear, 60, one of the tour guides on strike, said he and his father walked out of the pits in the 1980s. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

“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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