![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/military-set-to-cover-for-striking-border-force-staff-in-desperate-tory-plan/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/0_Heathrow-Terminal-5-Border-Chaos.jpg&description=Hundreds of Armed Forces personnel look set to be drafted into ports and airports after 100,000 civil servants voted to strike over pay and pensions - including in Border ForcePeople waiting in line for border checks at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5Suella Braverman has been accused of 'desperate strike-breaking' over plans to make the military cover for striking Border Force officers. The Home Secretary is thought to have asked for hundreds of Armed Forces personnel to join ports and airports after Border Force workers backed a walkout over pay and pensions. According to The Guardian, the personnel will get less than a week of training to work at Dover's ferry port and Heathrow Airport - compared to at least three weeks for a Border Force guard. Training will begin within weeks, Whitehall sources told her paper, after Public and Commercial Services union members in 126 areas of government backed strikes. The union has warned it will agree a "programme of sustained industrial action' unless "substantial proposals" are received by the Government by next Friday. Soldiers patrolling outside Parliament after a terror attack in 2017 ( AFP/Getty Images) Former defence minister John Spellar told the Mirror he had met resistance when he tried to call in the military to tackle fuel protests under Tony Blair. The Labour MP added: 'They very much do not like getting involved in industrial disputes. 'They're also being used willy-nilly in a way they shouldn't be, particularly when there have been cuts to their numbers and there is a major security situation in Europe. 'If they have got spare troops they should be putting them in Estonia.' PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "This is pure desperation by Suella Braverman. 'Time and again, the military has been clear it has its own job to do and doesn't want to spend time covering for the government's failures. 'The government's attempts to recruit a strike-breaking workforce from within the civil service has also clearly fai){kind=link}
Hundreds of Armed Forces personnel look set to be drafted into ports and airports after 100,000 civil servants voted to strike over pay and pensions – including in Border Force
Suella Braverman has been accused of “desperate strike-breaking” over plans to make the military cover for striking Border Force officers.
The Home Secretary is thought to have asked for hundreds of Armed Forces personnel to join ports and airports after Border Force workers backed a walkout over pay and pensions.
According to The Guardian, the personnel will get less than a week of training to work at Dover’s ferry port and Heathrow Airport – compared to at least three weeks for a Border Force guard.
Training will begin within weeks, Whitehall sources told her paper, after Public and Commercial Services union members in 126 areas of government backed strikes.