Disruption is expected at airports including Manchester as passport control workers begin strikes.
Hundreds of thousands of travellers arriving in the UK have been told to expect delays as Border Force staff become the latest UK workers to take action as “rises in the cost of living outpace pay”,.
The industrial action will also affect passport control desks at Heathrow, Gatwick, Birmingham, Cardiff, and Glasgow airports, as well as the port of Newhaven in East Sussex.
The military and civil servants have been drafted in to cover over the eight days of action
Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) are in a long-running dispute with the government over pay, jobs, pensions and conditions.
