Hi all,
This is a question I'm sure that's come up all the time - whether to always support industrial action, even in reactionary professions. I'm sure we don't all want to go through it again, but look at this:
http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/people/30-jobs-border-control/article-2082325-detail/article.html
Would you support (ideologically, practically) if UKBA workers wildcatted e.g.?
Point me to a thread if this is running over really old ground 
UKBA are scum. i'm pretty ambivalent about industrial action there, it's only on our side to the extent they reject their role, but it's always interesting to see the state's repressive apparatus insubordinating.
I would suggest that most left libertarians or anarchists would support industrial action in the vast majority of professions with perhaps the exception of the police and prison services.
In real terms, much of what the UKBA does incorporates the worst parts of both of your professions, with less restrictions.
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Much of what passes for work in capitalist society is reactionary. However it is only really in organised resistence at work that workers can exercise real power.
I would suggest that most left libertarians or anarchists would support industrial action in the vast majority of professions with perhaps the exception of the police and prison services.
Obviously the aim of the strike would be a factor in determining support.