Tate staff hold week-long strike over pay amid reports of workers using food banks

Susete Almeida, the PCS union branch chair, joins Tate Britain colleagues on the picket line in London. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

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.