UK: Up to 1,000 expected at fresh protests over foreign workers

Protests on the scale of last week’s mass picketing of Lindsey oil refinery will shift this morning to two power station sites, where hundreds of skilled British contract workers have failed to find work.

Workers who took part in the action in North Lincolnshire, which led to half the jobs on a specialised plant contract being reserved for British applicants, will join the protests at Staythorpe in Nottinghamshire and the Isle of Grain in Kent.


Up to 1,000 demonstrators are expected at the sites, which are in the hands of a chain of foreign subcontractors, similar to the set-up at Lindsey that initially led to a self-contained “package” workforce of Italian and Portuguese men arriving by barge to do the work.

Last autumn Staythorpe saw the first protests in the campaign against tailor-made foreign packages, when Spanish subcontractors brought in most of their workforce from overseas.

Guardian