Sympathy refinery strikes staged

An unofficial strike at a North Lincolnshire oil refinery is continuing for a fifth day, and has spread to other sites in Britain.

About 1,200 contractors at the Lindsey refinery have walked out.

Contractors at Cheshire’s Fiddlers Ferry Power Station and Aberthaw in south Wales downed tools in sympathy.

The Lindsey workers withdrew their labour last week in protest at a sub-contractor axing 51 jobs while another employer on the site was hiring people.

BBC