National Gallery staff strike shuts down most exhibitions

Art lovers disappointed but many support workers on indefinite strike over fears they will be replaced by security guards ‘who know nothing about paintings’Striking workers have shut down most of London’s National Gallery, as a long-running dispute over the privatisation of their jobs escalated into an indefinite walkout.The gallery’s main doors in Trafalgar Square were closed on Tuesday and visitors were instead directed to the Sainsbury wing, where a private security company manned the