Holidaymakers could be affected by strike action today as airport security guards and workers in passport offices at some of the UK’s biggest airports head to the picket lines.
Holidaymakers could be left frustrated by strike action as workers at some of the UK’s biggest airports will head to the picket lines.It is the start of a five-week strike for passport workers in the increasingly bitter civil service dispute over jobs, pay, pensions and conditions.
More than 1,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services union at eight sites will walk out in an escalation of the long-running row. Picket lines will be mounted outside the offices in Glasgow, Durham, Liverpool, Southport, Peterborough, London, Belfast and Newport in Wales.PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka has written to the Government calling for urgent talks in a bid to resolve the dispute.More staff will take to the picket lines today He has accused ministers of treating its own employees differently to others in the public sector after negotiations were held with unions representing health workers and teachers.
The union is stepping up strikes, with a nationwide walkout of more than 130,000 civil servants planned for April 28. The Home Office said the Passport Office has already processed more than 2.7 million applications this year, adding over 99.7% of standard applications are being processed within 10 weeks, with the majority of those delivered to customers well under this timescale.
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