Boomed

[Sockpuppet]

900 contract jobs open up.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/8108434.stm

[d000hg]

I'm sorry for the workers, but I admire the company for having the balls to stand up for itself. Everything I've heard about unions before Thatcher crushed them was bad.
The idea of a union is admirable, my wife's a teacher and has had a union member to step in when bullied out of her job in the past, but they seem too keen to try and dictate corporate policy rather than look after their members as individuals.

[Fred Bloggs]

Now then, these guys at Lindsey Oil Refinery are earning about £9 or £10 per hour tops. They're lucky if they manage 6 months a year work. They get treated like something you wipe off your shoe. Total is an ar5e of a company in the way it treats people. I have worked on these jobs so I know exactly what it's like, believe me, those guys really struggle to make ends meet and I have every sympathy with them.

[Shimano105]

Is this the same bunch that were complaining about cheaper foreign workers being given preference over jobs?

Hmm, I can see them being replaced with 'much cheapness'. This is a worrying trend.

[TimberWolf]

Hmm, I can see them being replaced with 'much cheapness'. This is a worrying trend.

Can't see it happening in IT.

[thelace]

Now then, these guys at Lindsey Oil Refinery are earning about £9 or £10 per hour tops. They're lucky if they manage 6 months a year work. They get treated like something you wipe off your shoe. Total is an ar5e of a company in the way it treats people. I have worked on these jobs so I know exactly what it's like, believe me, those guys really struggle to make ends meet and I have every sympathy with them.

WHS

You IT guys bitch like crazy about losing contracts to Bob Showaddywaddyland, and rightly so. But I have news for you, You're not on your own. There are many industries out there that are being ripped apart by cheap foreign labour.

I am not a fan of unions (and I believe this industrial action was not union backed), but I have a great respect for people that stand up for their beliefs like thse guys have.

[The Lone Gunman]

I am sort of with them.
I know they have been treated like tulip.
I agreed with their last strike.
This one is a wild cat strike and is illegal if I understand it.
The reason for their strike seems a bit lame too.
One company was laying off while another was taking on and they were not offered the jobs? Could they not have gone over to the other manager and offered their services (possibly en mass) showing they had proven skills, site knowledge and a proven team? Why go on strike instead of showing a bit of initiative. They may have done this.

I can see thsi one escalating though. There is a lot of unrest in the UK over all kinds of issues. If the unions can play to the crowd you could see close to a general strike over this. I think they will play it as a foreign workers thing. That should do it.


[edit]OI LACE: Less of the "you IT" types as though we dont care. That is an unfair generalisation. Some of us do not have tunnel vision for our sector only.

[TimberWolf]

The next 5 years look as if they could be fun.

[Fred Bloggs]

Is this the same bunch that were complaining about cheaper foreign workers being given preference over jobs?

Hmm, I can see them being replaced with 'much cheapness'. This is a worrying trend.

Yes it is partly related to the previous issues.

[Churchill]

The next 5 years look as if they could be fun.

The government have removed our teeth, it ain't going to be much of a fight!