British protests against foreign energy workers spread

[Adsos Letter]

Source: AFP/Yahoo

IMMINGHAM, England (AFP) - - Wildcat strikes against foreign workers spread through oil refineries and other energy facilities in Britain, fuelled by fears of rising job cuts.

The protest started at Britain's third-largest oil refinery, Lindsey in Lincolnshire, eastern England, where workers first walked out Wednesday over the use of Italian and Portuguese contractors on a 200-million-pound (222 million euros, 286 million dollars) building project.

But it had spread by Friday to other refineries and plants across Britain, where unemployment is currently at its highest rate for 10 years as the credit crunch hits hard.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has made a point of pledging "British jobs for British workers," while more recently warning against trade protectionism as a response to the worldwide economic downturn.

Brown's pledge had come back to haunt him, newspapers said Saturday.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090131/twl-britain-industry-strike-oil-0ccf4b6.html

[Double T]

1. Brown is another political hypocrite that wants it both ways.

The corporatocracies of the world will fall to the workers.

[aquart]

4. Yeah, because that happens a lot.

[leftstreet]

2. oops

All these numbnut world leaders backtracking and spouting ____ jobs for ____ workers!! After they spent years backdooring in low wage labor.

Sigh.
Looks like we've all got a long ways to go to global worker solidarity.

[cherokeeprogressive]

3. We won't get there in my life or yours. Probably not during our children's lives either.

Discrimination is the human way. It ain't endin' any time soon.

Global solidarity, while a noble goal, is unreachable. Too many religions and too much ethnic hatred will prevent anything approaching "global" solidarity of ANY kind from coming to pass.

[leftstreet]

5. Wow. Global change bothers you n/t