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Rail and Border Force strikes 'will damage consumer confidence in travel'

Government
James Chapple
7 December 2022

Rail and Border Force strikes this Christmas risk damaging consumer confidence in travel and plunging the country back into the "chaos" that followed the lifting of the UK’s Covid travel restrictions earlier this year, Advantage Travel Partnership chief executive Julia Lo Bue-Said has warned.

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Advantage chief Julia Lo Bue-Said said there would be operational benefits for the trade

Workers at Network Rail and 14 train operating companies are set to walk out over the coming weeks, and will now be joined by thousands of Border Force officials after the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) on Wednesday (7 December) announced eight days of strike action over the Christmas period.