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12:17pm Friday 19th June 2009 in Didcot By Emily Allen
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.
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Zaxharias Ziegla
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11:09pm Sat 20 Jun 09
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DanOxford says...
9:17pm Fri 19 Jun 09
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.