Total: 30 Workers Strike At UK Lindsey Refinery; Output Unchanged
May 06 2009 - 10:08AM
Dow Jones News
Thirty construction contractors went on strike Wednesday at
Total SA's (TOT) 200,000-barrel-a-day Lindsey oil refinery in the
U.K. to protest against the use of foreign labor, the company
said.
The strike at the Lindsey plant in eastern England had no effect
on the refinery's output, a U.K.-based Total spokesman said.
The Lindsey workers, who were working on a construction site to
build a hydrodesulfurization unit at the plant, walked out
Wednesday morning in sympathy with a protest at London's Olympic
stadium site.
The Lindsey contractors will return to work Thursday, the
spokesman added.
The London protest, backed by the GMB and Unite trade unions,
called for more British construction workers to be employed at the
Olympic site, reported BBC News.
A February walkout at Lindsey over the use of foreign workers
prompted hundreds of workers to go on strike at many U.K. energy
facilities.
Company Web site: http://www.total.com
-By Lananh Nguyen, Dow Jones Newswires; +44 (0)20-7842-9479;
lananh.nguyen@dowjones.com