UK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls, said strikes preventing staff from making it into work and disrupting consumers’ plans meant a “huge” drop in sales for venues and would be “devastating” to businesses during the busiest time of the year, “just as everyone was anticipating an uninterrupted Christmas period for the first time in three years”.
Michael Kill, chief executive of the Night-Time Industries Association (NTIA), said strike action during the festive period would be “catastrophic” for night-time businesses and continued strikes were “”eating into consumer confidence”.
