UK border staff strike cancelled

on 25/07/2012 11:32:35

A planned strike by British Home Office staff including immigration officers in a row over jobs and pay has been called off after progress in peace talks.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services union were due to stage a 24-hour walkout tomorrow, the eve of the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

The British Government had announced legal action to try to prevent the strike going ahead.

The union said 800 new jobs will be created in the Border Agency and 300 in passport offices, describing it as enough progress to suspend the strike.