Fuel Strike In Scotland 27th & 28th Could Cause Shortages All Over The UK!

Dustangle

Well when I went out to panic buy - Glasgow, West End - there weren't any queues. The prices were up - two service stations were selling unleaded at 108.9p and the cheapest I could find was 105.9p, up from 103.9p last week.

Whatever we do we must stick up for the Unite members - their employer sounds brutal, cutting out the final salary pension scheme and cutting pensions for existing and future workers. No wonder they got a 97% yes vote in the strike ballot - the employer is effectively trying to make the workers fund their purchase of the plant with their pensions, which are of course deferred earnings. Now the employer says they'll close the plant for a month. Blackmailing the workers and blackmailing the nation. The government should nationalise the plant with no compensation.

jeannieblue

Dustangle wrote: »

Well when I went out to panic buy - Glasgow, West End - there weren't any queues. The prices were up - two service stations were selling unleaded at 108.9p and the cheapest I could find was 105.9p, up from 103.9p last week.

Whatever we do we must stick up for the Unite members - their employer sounds brutal, cutting out the final salary pension scheme and cutting pensions for existing and future workers. No wonder they got a 97% yes vote in the strike ballot - the employer is effectively trying to make the workers fund their purchase of the plant with their pensions, which are of course deferred earnings. Now the employer says they'll close the plant for a month. Blackmailing the workers and blackmailing the nation. The government should nationalise the plant with no compensation.

Sadly all of us tax paying honest people in the Uk are suffering one way or the other. I'm not sure this case will get the support that you need as everyone is so worried about themselves. That may sound selfish, but I think it to be true. We're all struggling out there with our own 'causes', its tough, its hard but its the way it is.

Short of winning the lottery - I'm up !!!!!! creek without a paddle - but I've just gotta get up and go to work, like many others. Retirement is not option, can't afford it. And I'm not in a position to run out and fill my tank up willy nilly, I have to wait til pay day like many others.

pinkfluffybabe

PeteHerts wrote: »

Why is everybody having a dig at me today :rotfl:

Not having a dig, I was using 'Could Cause Shortages All Over The UK!' as an example of sensationalism, the likes of which contributes to the aforementioned shortages as everyone rushes to the pumps before they normally would need to fill up.

The media are hellish for this sort of stuff.

jeannieblue

The media are hellish for this sort of stuff.[/quote]
Yep - and then we all suffer for the stupid panic buying nutters

PeteHerts

pinkfluffybabe wrote: »

Not having a dig, I was using 'Could Cause Shortages All Over The UK!' as an example of sensationalism, the likes of which contributes to the aforementioned shortages as everyone rushes to the pumps before they normally would need to fill up.

The media are hellish for this sort of stuff.

Read the link below and you'll find it's the union who made the quote about shortages all over the UK!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080420/tuk-fuel-shortages-warning-over-strike-6323e80.html

zolablue25

TRUSt_NO_1 wrote: »

Yes I posted it.

I find it hard to believe BP would shut down a refinery for one month over a pension dispute.Surely the loss in revenue would be massive.They are printing money at the moment.If they can't afford a pension scheme ...who can ?

The refinery is not being shut down for a month. There is a 48 hour strike. Oil refineries cannot be shut down by the flick of a switch. This may be news to you but there is some dangerous stuff being used/produced at one of these places and they have to be shutdown PROPERLY. The same goes for starting it up again. It will take time. Factor in the loss of production for a period totally approximately 8 days and that takes a fair amount of time to catch up with, hence the statement that supplies could be disrupted for up to a month.

Edit: I also failed to mentionthe disruption to North Sea Oil and Gas as a lot of it is piped directly in at Grangemouth and that will obviously have to stop for the duration of the strike.

zolablue25

Dustangle wrote: »

The government should nationalise the plant with no compensation.

Yes because we all know that nationalised industries are incredibly efficient and well run. Not a drain on public resources at all.:rolleyes:

Dustangle

zolablue25 wrote: »

Yes because we all know that nationalised industries are incredibly efficient and well run. Not a drain on public resources at all.:rolleyes:

Well, we're dealing here with the third largest multinational company in this industry which makes £3m profit a day from processing a natural resource belonging to our people and which, in the interests of robbing its workers, is prepared to hold our nation to ransom while carrying out a lock-out.

The company is nothing but a parasite on our nation - it literally drains public resources and expropriates them from us. I am sure that they are quite efficient at doing this, though.

No war but the class war, as they are learning to say in Grangemouth.

Prudent

What is the dispute about at Grangemouth?

PeteHerts

Prudent wrote: »

What is the dispute about at Grangemouth?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20...e-6323e80.html