Border Force to strike at Australian airports over Easter holiday period

Easter travel plans could be thrown into chaos with Border Force and immigration department staff at international airports across Australia to take strike action the eve of Good Friday. The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) says thousands of public servants from agencies such as Medicare and Centrelink will also take industrial action in the week of 21 March to protest against pay offers and rights and conditions being stripped away. The union is considering a 3-week campaign of rolling airport strikes over the Easter school holidays “if the govt continues with their attack on workplace rights”. Australian Border Force officers and other staff in the Department of Immigration and Border Protection will then walk off the job at international airports, freight terminals and other sites March 24. <br/>