Border staff, teachers join 1-day UK strike

LONDON (AP) — Airline passengers arriving in Britain escaped chaos early Wednesday despite dire predictions of long waits, as border staff joined teachers, hospital workers and weather forecasters in the country's largest strike in decades.

The one-day strike has been called to oppose government demands that public sector staff work longer before receiving a pension and contribute more money each month — plans which form part of a package of austerity measures designed to get a grip on the country's high borrowing levels.

Labor unions said as many as 2 million public sector staff were joining the strike, which would make it the largest since the infamous industrial dispute …