ConocoPhillips: 300 Contractors Strike At UK Humber Refinery
June 22 2009 - 4:11AM
Dow Jones News
Approximately 300 contract workers walked out at ConocoPhillips'
(COP) 221,000-barrel-a-day Humber refinery in the U.K. Monday, the
company said.
"We have lost a small percentage of our contract workforce," the
company said in an e-mailed statement. Around 300 of the 1,200
contractors employed at the site participated in unofficial strikes
Monday.
More than 2,000 contract workers at energy facilities across the
U.K. halted work Friday to join a strike over sweeping job cuts at
an oil refinery owned by French oil major Total SA (TOT). Total
said it plans to lay off 647 contract employees Friday at its
Lindsey refinery in Lincolnshire, eastern England, angering unions
and workers. The Unite union put the total job losses closer to
900.
-By Lananh Nguyen, Dow Jones Newswires; +44 (0)20-7842-9479;
lananh.nguyen@dowjones.com
(Angela Henshall in London contributed to this report.)