Prospect news stories

 Alan Leighton, Prospect National Secretary, has written to The Independent newspaper in regards to their article published on 5 June on the possible closure of one of the Science Museum Group’s museums in the north of England.

Civil servants are paying a bitter price for a reform plan that lacks strategic leadership, accountability and fair employment, Prospect's Sue Ferns says in a blog for Guardian Professional published on the eve of the first anniversary of the reforms.

Proposals to introduce charges at three museums in the north – or even close one of them – have been condemned as ‘baffling’ by Prospect, the union representing 5,000 curators, conservators and museum specialists across the UK.

Prospect has expressed dismay at claims in the Telegraph that Capita plans to break leases on two O2 customer service centres – at Bury, Greater Manchester, and Glasgow – within two years.

We write further to our e-mail (028/13) of last week regarding Hibu's intention to make further headcount reductions.