Locked out Vivergo Fuels workers march on Hull

A reported 500 march from the new BP site at Saltend to the Hull city centre over job losses

Submitted by flaneur on March 28, 2011

There was support shown by workers of North Lincolnshire refineries Lindsay and ConocoPhillips, Pembroke power station in Wales and Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire. The march ended with addresses from union representives.

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Ed

13 years ago

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Submitted by Ed on March 29, 2011

Cheers for this update.. just giving it a bump really as it's getting lost under all the March 26th stuff.. to me, this is an even more important part of the anti-cuts movement than a one-off demo..

flaneur

13 years ago

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Submitted by flaneur on March 29, 2011

It has definitely read as interesting so far and I wonder where it's going to go. Nationwide action could be spectacular but I guess we'll see.

flaneur

12 years 12 months ago

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Submitted by flaneur on April 5, 2011

300 were picketing outside the site yesterday. A one day stoppage has been called for tomorrow countrywide in the construction industry. As is the trend for wildcats, this obviously have a sizable union backing but they've not made the call themselves.

flaneur

12 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by flaneur on April 11, 2011

Couldn't find owt on news of the stoppage so I'm assuming it never came to fruition. Another picket today with 30 workers sitting in the road to block the traffic for an hour and a half.

Chilli Sauce

12 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by Chilli Sauce on April 11, 2011

Is there a strike support group in Hull?

flaneur

12 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by flaneur on April 12, 2011

Video from today's picket where there was a 2 hour stoppage of traffic during rush hour. BP are having their annual general meeting in London on Thursday which some of the striking workers are coming down for.

flaneur

12 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by flaneur on April 13, 2011

Article about today's events. I'll write it up when I have a bit of time. There's a 48 hour break called by the GMB to have talks with Vivergo and the police have said there'll be no more traffic hold ups.

BP's AGM is tomorrow, at London EXCEL Centre, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 from 10:30.

bastarx

12 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by bastarx on April 14, 2011

The comments on that article are pretty anti-worker for the most part. I saw plenty of similar comments on a local website when I was on strike last year. Sadly a lot of the working class seems absolutely filled with resentiment.

Samotnaf

12 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by Samotnaf on April 15, 2011

Any further info about this and what they did at the BP AGM (heard about shareholders and victims of the disaster, but nothing about Humberside workers)...?

Ed

12 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by Ed on April 15, 2011

flaneur

Article about today's events. I'll write it up when I have a bit of time.

This would be great mate, I've barely seen anything about this even from other lefty sources..

Peter

The comments on that article are pretty anti-worker for the most part. I saw plenty of similar comments on a local website when I was on strike last year. Sadly a lot of the working class seems absolutely filled with resentiment.

Yeah, but I'd say that was more down to the fact that the sort of people leaving comments on the local paper's website are local slobbering-at-the-mouth conservatives who only read the news to confirm their view that the world is all going pot/isn't like it was at X point in the past.. a lot of normal people who hold sensible views (not even necessarily pro but more "well, I'm sure the workers have a point but it is annoying to be in traffic..") aren't gonna waste their time with that sort of shit..

Same way youtube comments are always really racist/people bitching I think..

flaneur

12 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by flaneur on April 15, 2011

Ed, This is a fairly good review of the past few weeks, despite the source.

Reuters article about Thursday's protest at the AGM.

flaneur

12 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by flaneur on April 28, 2011

There's been mixed reaction to the payment settlement offered by Vivergo, with 380 odd workers accepting a £1.2 million deal to cover unpaid wages but the union saying no to it, with apparently 200 wanting job, not financial security. Considering this concerns nearly 400 workers in total, I wonder what the actual story is.