Airport strikes could go on for months

 The head of the PCS union said that UK Airport strikes by Border Force workers could last for months if the government doesn’t discuss pay.

Mark Serwotka said that walkouts were “mandated” by the union until May.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was “sad” about the trouble that airport strikes were causing, but he said that he had acted “fairly and reasonably” regarding public sector pay.

Thousands of travelers coming to the UK were warned to expect delays, but there have been a few problems.

As the Christmas vacation picked up speed, the AA said that some places had “severe congestion” on the roads.

It said that rail strikes, which were set to end on Saturday, had caused more cars to be on the road and that accidents on the M1 and flooding on the M25 had caused big traffic jams.

Around 1,000 Border Force workers, many of whom check passports, are going on strike from Friday to December 26 and from December 28 to December 31. This is the first of a series of strikes lasting until January 1.

Workers are leaving their jobs at Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, and the Port of Newhaven. People from the military and the government have been called in to cover strikers.

On Friday afternoon, a Heathrow Airport spokesperson said that regardless of the airport strikes everything was going “smoothly” and that the airport was running as usual.

A spokesperson for the BBC said that the Airport strikes didn’t cause any problems at Glasgow Airport either. Even at the other airports, there have been no reports of delays.