Warning of public sector strike threat to UK travel

[Gerald]

Travellers have been warned to expect delays on arrival at UK ports and airports on Thursday as hundreds of immigration and customs officers are due to join the public sector strike.

People are being advised to think about travelling on alternative dates.

Up to 750,000 teachers and civil servants are due to strike over planned pension changes they say will mean them working longer and paying more.

Business leaders have warned of the impact of the walkout on the economy.

Addressing the Local Government Association conference, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the strikes would not help Britons or the trade union movement.

Mr Clegg said: "We are absolutely adamant in government that this issue can only, and must only, be resolved through dialogue and discussion, not through strikes and conflict.

"We quite simply have to stick with it. We have to keep on talking and sort it out."

Airport operator BAA, which runs Heathrow, Stansted, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton airports, said it had been informed by the UK Border Agency "arriving passengers should expect delays at the UK border on Thursday as a result of industrial action by immigration officers".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13953678


Note: 29 June 2011 Last updated at 09:24 GMT

[papa_smurf]

This is going to be a severe test of the coalition, though I did love how the education minister Michael Gove suggested that parents should step in when teachers went on strike - so he wants the all the take a CRB (Criminal Records Bureau check AND do a teachers job, talk about coming form the world of fantasy

[STEED]

Michael Gove is unfit to be left in charge of his own underpants!

One day on strike will have no effect on Pinky & Perky better known as Cameron & Clegg. The Unions should walkout outright and stay out unit Pinky & Perky are taken to the knackers yard.

[BossMark]

Gove
Cameron
Clegg

They couldn't run a bath or a piss up in brewery

[STEED]

BossMark your sig- Never trust the Tories look what Thatcher and Major did in the 80s and 90s

This should be updated with - Don't trust Labour look what Blair and Brown did in the 90's and 00's lied cheated and stole from us along with landing this country with over £90 million pound debt.

Don't trust any of the big three there all B******d's.

Up the Revolution.

[Tarrasque]

Steed:

Actually there's been people that have looked at the figures and found that ignoring recession itself, the structural deficit under Labour was the same as the current coalition target. In other words, regardless of their faults (and they had many) the Labour government wasn't to blame for the deficit, but the global recession was.

Basically it's yet another excuse used by the coalition government to justify their ideological based 'cuts' that are not only costing more money than they are saving, but are crippling the country.

[STEED]

Gordon Brown is a total blockhead when it comes to money. I agree not all the debt is the fault of labour but they did add to it. I agree not a month passes by without hearing pinky & perky (Cameron/Clegg) given vast sums of money away here there and every where. The actions of pinky & perky are not helping this country one bit.

One thing that made me laugh Cameron has a chin wag with the EU and reads them the riot act..UK will not give any more money to Greece and the EU said OK by us and then what dose Cameron do? He donates £1 Billion to the IMF to give to Greece!

[Tarrasque]

£1 billion? Last I heard, the pillock was upping our subscription by nearly £10 billion.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Tarrasque

£1 billion? Last I heard, the pillock was upping our subscription by nearly £10 billion.

Oh s**t.

At this rate the only person(s) who will be working are the ones who press the start/stop button on the printing money press.

[yubba]

Haven't seen Oberon, wondering if he's out strike-ing and I wonder what John Lennon would think of that, he bein a conservative an all

[Gerald]

Services including job centres and courts are being hit and thousands of schools closed as public sector workers across the UK stage a 24-hour strike.

Picket lines have been set up as the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and three teaching unions protest at planned changes to their pensions.

They say the plans mean more work and contributions for a reduced pension.

The government says the plans are "fair to taxpayers" and other trade unions are continuing with negotiations.

As well as pickets, union leaders and activists will hold a march and rally in central London, where police leave has been cancelled.
Airport delays

The impact of the co-ordinated industrial action began to be felt at ports and airports on Wednesday evening, when some UK Border Agency staff walked out from 1800 BST.

Travellers have been warned to expect delays on arrival at UK ports and airports.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13967580


Note: Update Record, 30 June 2011 Last updated at 08:26 GMT

[BossMark]

Originally Posted by Vendor

The government says the plans are "fair to taxpayers" and other trade unions are continuing with negotiations.

This government doesn't know what fair means even if runs up and smacked em in face

[Gerald]

Good thing there are many ways to get into the country, if it is problem at the border,

Originally Posted by Vendor

Good thing there are many ways to get into the country, if it is problem at the border,

Just ask any immigrant.

The immigrants enter, as the jobs leave.
The taxes rise, as the wages fall.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Snestorm

Just ask any immigrant.

The immigrants enter, as the jobs leave.
The taxes rise, as the wages fall.

Yes that's one way, but had thought of another,