Border Force staff at Heathrow to take strike action for most of September

Union says forced changes to working hours and practices have most harmed those with caring responsibilities

Hundreds of Border Force officers at Heathrow will take industrial action for 23 days from the end of the month over a long-running dispute about changes to their terms of employment.

About 650 members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union will go on strike from 31 August to 3 September at which point a period of work to rule - where no overtime is undertaken and no extra work is done beyond what is contractually required - will begin and continue until 22 September.