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By Zoe Conway
Employment correspondent
Saturday volition precise overmuch person the feeling of Groundhog Day. The aforesaid groups of workers volition beryllium connected onslaught arsenic Friday - and it volition inactive beryllium cold. Rail passengers volition carnivore the brunt of the disruption.
However, if you are flying retired from Heathrow Airport this weekend, you'll beryllium pleased to cognize that a planned onslaught by immoderate baggage handlers has been called off. The Unite national is considering a caller wage connection - though a four-day walkout starting connected 29 December is inactive pencilled in.
This is my latest onslaught briefing, with tons of utile accusation connected what is happening - and however it mightiness impact you.
So what is this weekend looking like?
Another time of bid delays
Members of the UK's biggest obstruction national - the RMT - are striking until 23:59 connected Saturday. Services passim England, Scotland and Wales are affected.
The proposal is not to question by train, but if you must:
- Make definite you check with your obstruction operator earlier mounting out, to spot which trains are running
- Be prepared for nary services astatine each connected immoderate routes
- Be prepared for nary aboriginal greeting oregon precocious nighttime services connected different routes
- Expect engaged carriages with lone 1 successful 5 services operating betwixt 07:30 and 18:30 GMT
On Sunday morning, galore services volition commencement later.
The RMT is besides readying 4 consecutive days of enactment implicit Christmas - with much dates successful aboriginal January.
Watch Make Sense of Strikes connected iPlayer and find retired much astir wherefore radical are striking and whether concern enactment works.
National Highways
Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) - who support cheque connected England's motorways and large roads - are taking portion successful targeted determination strikes implicit the coming weeks.
Until 23:59 connected Saturday, 3 areas - the north-west, the north-east, and Yorkshire and the Humber - are affected.
The unit - who bash jobs similar monitoring CCTV cameras, programming physics informing signs and attending accidents - walked retired connected Friday morning.
National Highways says nary roads volition beryllium closed and it has "well-rehearsed resilience plans successful place".
But instrumentality other attraction - arsenic rain, sleet, crystal and snowfall are forecast successful bluish England this weekend.
Bus drivers
Getting astir parts of central, southbound and westbound London connected nationalist transport volition beryllium adjacent much tricky connected Saturday due to the fact that - arsenic good arsenic the obstruction onslaught - immoderate autobus drivers person besides stopped work.
Unite national members - based astatine autobus garages successful Battersea, Beddington, Hayes, Southall, Twickenham and Walworth - walked retired connected Friday morning.
They enactment for autobus institution Abellio, which operates dozens of routes.
No driving tests for some
A walkout by driving examiners and different civilian servants continues this play - but lone successful north-east England and Scotland.
Members of the PCS union are striking astir days present until aboriginal January - but the concern enactment is regional.
From Monday 19 December until Christmas Eve, north-west England and Yorkshire and the Humber volition beryllium affected.
The onslaught volition not impact mentation tests.
What astir adjacent week?
We volition person different afloat briefing for you astatine teatime connected Sunday looking up to strikes successful the week moving up to Christmas.
Nurses and ambulance workers, the RMT obstruction union, positive Border Force, Highways Agency and Royal Mail unit each person walkouts planned.
How are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking portion successful onslaught action? You tin email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.
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