Border Force to strike at Melb Airport

Wait times at Melbourne Airport's immigration checkpoints are blowing out due to overloaded Border Force staff, a union says.

International travellers are taking up to three hours to pass through customs, and the Community and Public Sector Union says this is due to staff being cut amid rising passenger numbers.

The union is also planning industrial action at Melbourne Airport on Monday, as part of a nationwide protest over a new pay deal the union says will leave some workers $8000 a year worse off.