More trouble at Lindsey!
June 19, 2009
After large-scale walkouts at the Lindsey Oil Refinery and other supporting plants earlier in the year, more trouble has now broken out which has led to the dismissal of nine hundred construction contractors for illegal and unofficial industrial action.
Walkouts took place this week at the oil refinery in protest of 51 redundancies which were carried out as a piece of work had been completed on a construction project taking place at the site. Workers argue that this breaks an agreement between the plant owner Total and workers that no redundancies would be made at the site whilst foreign workers still work there. The company denies this agreement was made.
Because the strikes were not supported by the Unions GMB and Unite, this makes them unofficial and the people taking part therefore have no right to protection under Trade Union legislation. They lose the right to protection from dismissal for 12 weeks for participating in industrial action because they did not follow the important rules in relation to strikes – including that it is validated by the union and a proper ballot has been held. Therefore 900 workers taking part in the strike have been sacked, as announced in a Total statement:
“Total can confirm, with regret, that our contractors have now started the process of ending the current employment contracts for their workforce on the HDS-3 construction project,”
Lots of ‘sympathy’ strikes have taken place at sites in Yorkshire, Cheshire, Nottinghamshire and South Wales – which are estimated to involve up to 2000 people. These strikes are not official either but what will happen to those workers, it remains to be seen.
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