900 AXED AT OIL PLANT AFTER WILDCAT STRIKES; Row at troubled base.Byline: TOM PETTIFOR ALMOST nine hundred oil refinery workers were sacked last night for staging unofficial strikes. The walkout involving 1,200 staff had been escalating all week over 51 job cuts. But the dispute came to a head yesterday when workers from several power stations and oil plants across Britain took wildcat action too. Union Unite revealed employer Total snapped and axed the 900 staff from the Lindsey oil refinery Lindsey Oil Refinery is a Total owned oil refinery located at North Killingholme, North Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom. It lies immediately next to the Humber Refinery owned by rival oil company ConocoPhillips. in Lincolnshire. A spokesman said: "We are extremely concerned about the ramifications ramifications npl → Auswirkungen pl of the employer's actions. We are urging all parties to get back around the negotiating table to resolve this situation." The dispute flared up a week ago when a contractor laid off 51 workers while another employer on the site was hiring staff. The plant was hit by mass industrial action in January over the use of foreign workers foreign workers Those who work in a foreign country without initially intending to settle there and without the benefits of citizenship in the host country. Some are recruited to supplement the workforce of a host country for a limited term or to provide skills on a instead of local employees. It was backed by a wave of unofficial action at energy sites nationwide. CAPTION(S): SHOCK Lindsey refinery in Lincolnshire |
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