LONDON — Thousands of British schools will close and travelers will face long lines at airport immigration today when three quarters of a million workers go on strike — the first blast in what unions hope will be a summer of discontent against the cost-cutting government’s austerity plans.
The first test comes when 750,000 public-sector workers — including teachers, driving examiners, and customs officials — walk out for the day, part of a growing wave of opposition to the Conservative-led government’s deficit-cutting regime of tax hikes, benefit curbs, and spending cuts.
The unions say that the strike is just the start of a campaign of labor action on a scale unseen in Britain for three decades.
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