Sellafield workers join wildcat strikes
Monday 2nd February 2009, 10:08AM GMT.
Workers at the Sellafield nuclear site have joined wildcat strikes about the use of foreign workers.
They will join workers from Longannet power station and Grangemouth oil refinery.
Staff at a nuclear site in Heysham, Lancashire, are currently deciding whether to join the action.
The strikes began last week after workers objected to the use of Italian and Portuguese workers at the Lindsey refinery.
As the sun came up this morning, there were around 300 protestors at the refinery.
At the end of last week, over 1,500 workers in Scotland walked out on the same issue.
The government appears to have been taken aback by the size and speed of the wildcat strike.
Alan Johnson, a former trade unionist leader and now health secretary, expressed concerns about foreign workers being brought to the country on worse terms than UK workers in an attempt to undercut domestic labour.
Prime minister Gordon Brown has expressed some sympathy with the strikers but said the method was wrong.
Lord Mandelson said was pinning his hopes on a Total statement making it clear that UK firms were not barred from bidding for subcontracts.
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