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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Dalya Alberge

National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims

The National Gallery
Security staff are consigned to a ‘stifling’ basement space with no facilities. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

The National Gallery’s security staff, of whom the vast majority are from minority ethnic backgrounds, are facing shocking segregation, a senior curator has claimed.

Its outsourced guards are barred from the building’s high-quality “hub” – bright and airy recreation rooms that are available to the institution’s mainly white employees. They are not allowed to take their breaks there, or even sit in that area.

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