Christmas has been and gone – but strikes still remain today. Heading to the picket line today are: 🚂 Rail Staff 🛂 The Border Force
However, the union’s boss Mick Lynch announced on December 4 that he had rejected the RDG’s offer of a 4% pay rise for 2022 and 2023.
He said it was unfortunate that the union had been ‘compelled to take this action due to the continuing intransigence of the employers’.Tim Shoveller, Network Rail’s chief negotiator, has claimed the new walk-outs ‘expose RMT’s true priority, using the British public and Network Rail workers as pawns in a fight with the government’.Meanwhile, more than 1,000 Border Force staff belonging to the Public and Commercial Services union Six airports across the country are affected.
Army personnel and government staff will be drafted in to check passports at arrivals halls during further walkouts between December 23 and New Year’s Eve. Travellers were warned to brace themselves for delays amid fears the walkout of 1,000 staff working in passport booths could lead to long queues, people being held on planes and late departures.the use of military personnel trained to check passports appeared to have prevented them.‘There’s plenty of staff. The e-gates are all operating. It’s going well. There’s no delays as far as we’re aware, and no queues at the moment.
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