Emergency Committee meets over strikes in UK: Army could step in

In the UK, the government has called a meeting of the Emergency Committee, where measures such as the deployment of soldiers and security officers to maintain some services during the escalating strikes will be discussed.

In the UK, the Emergency Committee was convened because of the possibility that strikes could significantly disrupt life.

According to the BBC, the government has announced that soldiers will be able to serve during the strike of border security officers and ambulance officers who will go on strike at airports.

Postal and railway workers, nurses, ambulance and paramedic officers, passport control and border security personnel at airports are among those who have announced that they will go on strike this month.

Oliver Dowden, the Deputy Cabinet Minister who chairs the government’s emergency committee (COBRA), has asked unions to call off the “damaging” strikes. “The government will do everything it can to mitigate the impact of the strikes, but the way to avoid disruption altogether is for union bosses to return to negotiating and cancel damaging strikes,” Dowden said.

The unions are demanding a reasonable amount of wage hikes, which are melting in the face of inflation due to the cost of living and the lack of a raise for years.