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.