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UK border control decides not to strike at the Olympics after all

Dan Milmo

Skift Take

Border Agency staff resisted the strike plans after the government agreed to begin hiring 1,100 more workers to man passport control and other border posts.

A strike by Border Agency staff on the eve of the Olympics has been called off, sparing likely disruption at Heathrow airport and travel hubs around the UK on Thursday, after the Public and Commercial Services union claimed the government had performed an about-turn on job cuts.

Home Office members of the UK's largest civil services union were preparing to stage a one-day strike the day before Friday's opening ceremony, hitting services at immigration control as well as the passport service and the Criminal Records Bureau.

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