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Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:44 pm ]
Post subject:  900 workers sacked at oil plant
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Nearly 900 workers at the Lindsey oil refinery have been sacked, following unofficial strike action at the plant.

About 1,200 contract workers walked out last week in a dispute over 51 redundancies. They claim an agreement not to cut any jobs had been broken.


this maybe the straw that broke the camels back …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/8108434.stm
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:22 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 900 workers sacked at oil plant
I sympathise with the workers who have lost there jobs but to be fair, the workers have broken there terms and conditions and the management are in the right to take this action.
Its a bit naive to go on an illegal strike and not expect retribution from the management, escpecially as they will be now inundated with applicants.
Author:  DoubleTouch [ Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:34 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 900 workers sacked at oil plant
bobbdobbs wrote:
I sympathise with the workers who have lost there jobs but to be fair, the workers have broken there terms and conditions and the management are in the right to take this action.
Its a bit naive to go on an illegal strike and not expect retribution from the management, escpecially as they will be now inundated with applicants.


I have to agree. The unions in this country are the most aggressive and powerful in the world (thanks to the shocking conditions workers were exposed top throughout the industrial revolution, being exploited by mine/mill owners etc) and often support their members' interests ferociously. They are however, in times like this pig-headed and act with flagrant disregard for any other involved party. I feel sorry too for the workers who have lost their jobs but this was an ILLEGAL strike that definitively contradicted what was written in their contract agreed by both sides before work commenced.

Now, because of their short-sightedness, they are out of a job in a bad recession and their positions have probably already being applied for by thousands of unemployed workers.
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