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Didcot power station contractors' strike continues

Sixty workers are on strike for a second day at Didcot power station in support of protests against the use of foreign labour at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire.

An spokesman for RWE npower, which owns the power station, confirmed the workers – all contractors working on maintenance projects at Didcot A Power Station – were striking for the second day, but said no npower staff were involved.

Eighty workers downed tools at 1pm yesterday.

Nearly 900 workers constructing a new plant at the Lincolnshire refinery were sacked following unofficial strike action yesterday.

Comments(2)

DanOxford says...
9:17pm Fri 19 Jun 09

Hang on- where's Gordon Brown and his hijacked (from the BNP) slogan: 'British Jobs for British Workers?

Of course these British workers with families, many paying high rents or mortgages or trapped in negative equity due to Gormless Gordon's failure to regulate lending must be 'lazy' to demand more money than Eastern Europeans living in caravans and sending huge amounts back home, knowing they can set themselves up in their home countries when they return.

NuLabour and their Union backers have failed British workers at all levels and must bear the majority of the resulting backlash against the use of foreign labour and the impact this has had on wages and communities.

Zaxharias Ziegla says...
11:09pm Sat 20 Jun 09

Tha sacking of 700 construction workers at the Lindsey Oil Refinery reflects the disastrous national and international crisis we're in. It provides a vivid snapshot of what British workers can expect from foreign companies, the Government and the trade unions.

These unions don't give a ****, as they consider recruiting temporary immigrant labour a far better option, and more suited to their left-wing ideology, than the difficult task of maintaining and improving the wages and conditions that British workers have won over many years.

Workers need to look at the ridiculously high salaries and expenses of union fat cats. They need to be clear that an endless worldwide supply of cheap labour threatens their very existence.

Before it's too late unionised British workers must break from TUC-affiliated unions, and seriously consider joining the Solidarity trade Union.


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