The ongoing UK Border Force strikes will escalate ‘significantly’ in upcoming months if a better offer for pay conditions is not made, warns Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS).
The warning comes as 133 000 members of the union walked out on Wednesday (March 15), with similar action in France and Spain.
Serwotka told Sky News that more than 40 000 civil servants were on minimum wage, with many having to use food banks and, since March last year, the UK government had offered only a 2% pay increase. PCS wants a 10% increase.
The threat of industrial action hangs over the coming spring and summer season, when travel through UK and European airports is expected to once more surge.
