Training British soldiers to control passports at British airports for fear of summer strikes

According to the Fars International Economic Group, the Daily Mail newspaper reported that hundreds of British soldiers are going to be trained this week to check passports at the airports of this country, in line with the preparation of British airport workers for strikes in the summer season.

Soldiers will be ready to step in to replace striking Border Force staff in two unions, the Public and Commercial Service (PCS) and the Immigration Service (ISU).

Both unions are said to be considering further strikes to coincide with the UK’s peak holiday season, as they did at Christmas 2022.

Guardian newspaper reported, these soldiers will be trained for 5 days from Monday; This is while the employees of the border force are trained for 3 weeks.

The move comes after soldiers were spotted at airports across England last Christmas, including Heathrow, Birmingham, Cardiff and Glasgow.

Last Christmas, around 1,000 Border Force staff walked out of UK airports on strike and were replaced by 600 British Army soldiers.

The Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force and civil servants were called to help at Heathrow, Birmingham, Cardiff, Gatwick, Glasgow and Manchester airports and the port of Newhaven in East Sussex.

The move comes after soldiers were spotted at airports across England last Christmas, including Heathrow, Birmingham, Cardiff and Glasgow.

The cost of living crisis caused by the sharp increase in food and energy prices has caused British people to face difficulties in paying bills and meeting daily expenses.

This has caused various parts of the country to go on strike. At the end of April, the employees of the passport office of this country went on strike for five weeks. Heathrow airport security officers stopped working for 10 days.

The strike of train and bus drivers, postal workers, ambulance drivers and nurses has caused problems for the British, teachers in England have also gone on strike several times and want to improve their working conditions and increase their wages.

More than 2.8 million working hours were lost during strikes during the “winter of discontent,” new figures show.

Following the widespread strikes in this country, English newspapers apply the “winter of discontent” reform for the strike period.

Unions have demanded a double-digit salary increase against the increase in inflation, which has risen above 10%.

At the same time, British government ministers warned that giving in to calls for a major compromise would only fuel a dramatic spike in prices.

The National Union of Railway, Maritime and Transport Workers also decided to continue this process with more strikes.

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