Ineos’ strike
by hakmao, 27 April 2008
Michael Connarty, MP for Linlithgow and Falkirk East at Westminster has just been interviewed by BBC One Scotland’s Politics Show about the strike at Grangemouth refinery. An economist in former life, Connarty condemned Ineos for ‘macho management tactics’ and ‘attacking the workers’ pensions’ through its imposition of a two-tiered pension scheme without consultation or negotiation with the union. He said ‘why we’re in this situation is [Ineos are] doing things that no sensible management would do’. The pension scheme at the centre of the dispute is in surplus and Ineos have reportedly rejected independent auditing of the accounts. Connarty suggested that Ineos’ ‘maverick way’ of approaching management has a political rather than economic agenda–’why have you provoked this strike now?’ The one obvious conclusion–Ineos are seeking to break the power of organised labour at the Grangemouth complex.
Sunday 27 April 2008 at 16:38
According to some SNP nuts the Grangemouth strike is a Labour conspiracy to defeat the glorious Scottish national liberation movement:
“If any evidence emerges of a unionist agenda in this strike then Labour in Scotland will have seen nothing to the disaster that will befall them from the electorate.”
“Westminster Snake-Oil. The Unions and the government are controlled by the Black Nobility. This is Broon, Bendy and their hidden masters scheming to the detriment of Scots and Scotland. And it is ridiculous that one entity owns this vast enterprise. Bring on independence.”
“If this Unite union was not one of the 15 trade unions who affliate to the Labour Party I would possibly have a different opinion. At the moment this smells of dung. The Labour party have struggled to get a way into the SNP and so they have coerced an affliate to do this for them to change the view of the scottish electorate… Now if we were independent we wouldn’t have one refinery, they wouldn’t be covered by a Labour affliated Trade Union and we wouldn’t be having this problem.”
(etc, etc see http://tinyurl.com/686o8s)
Sunday 27 April 2008 at 19:47
[this fucker never learns - banned you are fucker — nothing at all allowed through the net of catchment - go and paste your scribbles elsewhere - not wanted, nor are they needed here fuckwit]