Refinery Walkouts

wisbech_lad

Uhm, isn't Total a French company?

Ian_Griffiths_Halifax

I'd be concerned about the quality of the construction. There's a big round building in Pisa that's positively leaning. That's not really a good advert for their building skills.

Here, look. You've got to see it to believe it.

SailorSam

When it was on television news this morning, there was a large police presence they were standing shoulder to shoulder. So it appears that they have a secure future with their jobs.

dervish

luvpump wrote: »

What a bunch of "Bigoted Racists" :rolleyes:

Irony.

Wanting to protect your job is vertainly not bigotry.

For too long we have let 'Europe' control our own domestic affairs.

Also it has sickened me in this country how we bend over backwards to accomodate foreigners and ban Christmas in places. What about the British people???

I am delighted to see the honest British worker showing some solidarity!

This is a clear message to the British government - Govern Britain and help the British!

Degenerate

The thing I can't figure out is this. Considering that Italian labour is among the most expensive in the Euro zone, and also that the pound has plummeted against the Euro, making Euro-zone wages relatively more expensive, how can Italian migrant workers be cheaper than the locals?

tomstickland

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5617015.ece

Wildcat strikes over foreign workers spread across Britain

1echidna

This kind of absolute madness helps nobody. And to think that yesterday we were sniggering at the behaviour of the French.

mike_the_bike_2

Degenerate wrote: »

The thing I can't figure out is this. Considering that Italian labour is among the most expensive in the Euro zone, and also that the pound has plummeted against the Euro, making Euro-zone wages relatively more expensive, how can Italian migrant workers be cheaper than the locals?

I'm guessing here but Italy is a very economically divided country..If the workforce is from southern Italy where property can be bought/rented in many regions for peanuts ..you would be able to ship them over here and pay them a wage which would be unsubstainable for someone living around the Immingham area..They are also being provided with accomodation too on a floating hotel..

Personally I don't agree with it but we are where we are and our membership of the EUSSR makes this sort of labour movement entirely legitamite.

Degenerate

mike_the_bike wrote: »

I'm guessing here but Italy is a very economically divided country..If the workforce is from southern Italy where property can be bought/rented in many regions for peanuts ..you would be able to ship them over here and pay them a wage which would be unsubstainable for someone living around the Immingham area..They are also being provided with accomodation too on a floating hotel..

Personally I don't agree with it but we are where we are and our membership of the EUSSR makes this sort of labour movement entirely legitamite.

I'm not sure that I do consider it legitimate. I understand and agree with the concept that workers are free to travel anywhere in the EU, but shipping in an entire workforce without allowing local applicants seems like a corruption of the concept. British resident workers (whatever their country of origin) should have been allowed to compete for those jobs.

Cannon_Fodder

Ian_Griffiths_Halifax wrote: »

I'd be concerned about the quality of the construction. There's a big round building in Pisa that's positively leaning. That's not really a good advert for their building skills.

Here, look. You've got to see it to believe it.

At least Pisa is still standing !