The government will discuss contingency plans, including using the military to cover border staff.
at Gatwick, Heathrow, Manchester, Birmingham and Cardiff airports for eight days from 23 December to New Year's Eve.
Members of The Public and Commercial Services Union - who represent 75% of all passport control staff - voted to take action in support of a 10% pay rise which they say will help border workers who are "struggling with the cost-of-living crisis". Some military personnel are already being trained up as part of contingency planning in a bid to avoid widespread travel disruption at Christmas.ahead of an ambulance worker strikeParamedics and control room staff will walk out in coordinated strike action by the three main ambulance unions - Unison, GMB and Unite - in a dispute over pay. The action will affect non-life threatening calls only.
Unison's head of health Sara Gorton said: "The wage rise given to health workers this year simply hasn't been enough to stop staff leaving in droves. Without enough employees in the NHS, patients will go on waiting too long for ambulances and for treatment to start." "Instead of putting plans in place for the strike days, ministers should be concentrating all their efforts on ending the disputes," she added.
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