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LONDON — Airline passengers face chaos at immigration halls, and school closures may force parents to take children with them to work today as Britain’s biggest strike in decades threatens to wreak havoc.
Labor leaders have warned that the strike may just be the start of a wave of disruption, with public workers opposing government plans to reform pensions and demands that they work longer before receiving a pension and contribute more money each month.
The unions claim as many as 2 million border-agency workers, teachers, garbage collectors, firefighters and other public-sector staff will join the 24-hour strike that begins shortly after midnight, plunging air travel and many basic services into disarray.
