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  Refinery strikes spread across UK
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Last EditedNew Jerusalem  Jan 30, 2009 06:33am
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News DateFriday, January 30, 2009 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionStrikes have been breaking out across the UK in support of a mass walkout by energy workers in Lincolnshire angry at the use of foreign workers.

Hundreds gathered for the third day of the original strike at Lindsey Oil Refinery after owner Total gave a £200m contract to an Italian firm.

They have been supported by hundreds of strikers in Scotland, Wales and other parts of England.

Total said there would be no "direct redundancies" as a result of the deal.

The firm added that staff employed by the Italian company IREM would be paid the same as existing contractors on the project. More than 300 of its workers have been brought in to do the work.

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said the angry British workers were "entitled to an answer".

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Unite regional officer Bernard McAuley told Friday's rally in Lincolnshire: "There is sufficient unemployed skilled labour wanting the right to work on that site and they are demanding the right to work on that site."

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