article_snippet.sent: The Queen’s staff will take industrial action for the first time in history over The Queen’s staff ‘ridiculously low’ wages.
article_snippet.sent: Union chiefs claim workers earn as little as £14,700 despite working the ‘country’s richest family’.
article_snippet.sent: Wardens at Windsor Castle Windsor Castle have voted for industrial action in a dispute over pay .
article_snippet.sent: Now, staff have voted ‘overwhelmingly’ in favour of industrial action after complaining staff have suffered ‘years of pay restraint’.
article_snippet.sent: That is not what staff want.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Staff claim ’ Staff receive poor salaries and perform extra duties such as guiding visitors around Windsor Castlefor no additional money .
article_snippet.sent: The union said The union narrowly accepted a poor pay offer last year on the understanding that additional allowances for tours and other skills would be considered this year.
article_snippet.sent: But following failed negotiations, non-strike industrial action could now start from the end of April.
article_snippet.sent: Staff’s wages were raised to the new ‘living wage’, which is above the National minimum wage, earlier this month.
article_snippet.sent: But the PCS complained that the living wage officially rose last November and that this wage hike should therefore be back-dated – a condition The Royal Collection has now agreed to.
highlights_snippet.sent: Members of the royal household have voted for work to rule in pay row .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Staff complained Staff're being paid far below the 'living wage' Staff deserve .
  