strike threat at oil refinery

[father ted]

heads up as from 2 morrow the petrol refinery at grangemouth will be starting to bring down their plants due to a strike being called by its workers the company have took 40million pounds of our pension fund and is looking to taken more so we had a ballot and 98%of the workers decided to call a strike this means that no petrol will be produced and possible shortage`s may occur am not saying that it will affects yous but im just telling yous the situation it takes a little while for these plants to come down but it takes a lot longer to bring them back on line i havnt got any figures of how much stock we have in out holding tanks so i cant pass thsi on there is a possiblity of picketing the gates to the refinery itself also the tanker loading ares so again as ive been off work i dont knwo the full details

[smirnoff_rules]

will it just be the scots that have a problem ? r u allowed to come into r country lol


edit: just put 50 holes in just in case

[Devilfish]

Thanks for the heads up Ted m8.

:(

[father ted]

will it just be the scots that have a problem ? r u allowed to come into r country lol


edit: just put 50 holes in just in case

you have to remember there isnt that many refinerys in britain now and we own most of them so beware ill try to get more info on monday

[Dreamer]

I think peeps are starting to panic already. There is quite a large queue forming at our local Tesco petrol station.

[C64]

Father Ted, you died too early :(

I think my car is running on fumes.

[smirnoff_rules]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a9hLu7oTtmQ8&refer=uk

news on the dispute

[krazylegz]

well get back to work and get us the full detail father :roflmao:

just put 60 quid in mine 2 days ago so should be good for a few weeks............will top up again on friday if any stations have some left lol

[Salami]

God Bless you father and thanx for the useful info.

a couple pints of diesel will do fine till the strike is over lol http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/5522/muttleytx4.gif (http://imageshack.us)

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[Salami]

well get back to work and get us the full detail father :roflmao:

just put 60 quid in mine 2 days ago so should be good for a few weeks............will top up again on friday if any stations have some left lol

Yeh there will be few petrol stations have plenty in Saudi Arabia lol

[father ted]

the management have until 2 morrow (as well as the unions) to come to some agreement if it isnt reached then the main plant for producing fuel will come down i have asked and have been told that we are holding 5 days of fuel available, but as ppl panic buy it may be less, a few garages in my area went dry at around 1700 hrs yesterday

[Salami]

the management have until 2 morrow (as well as the unions) to come to some agreement if it isnt reached then the main plant for producing fuel will come down i have asked and have been told that we are holding 5 days of fuel available, but as ppl panic buy it may be less, a few garages in my area went dry at around 1700 hrs yesterday

Thank you once more Father, we just hope is not going to be like last time when the protesters blocked the roads.

It took weeks to get back to normal. we hope that the management learned a lesson from last time and give the workers their right.

their right is not something they can ask for, is something no one can take away from them.

[Tizzer22]

Thanks for the info Ted, im gonna wait untill tomorrow to see what happens.

[father ted]

ok guys new heads up ive been shutting plants down all day ,one of the main one was just shut down at 1615 hrs the hydro cracker which is the main has only 4 hrs left so it wouldnt matter if it was resolved or not it will go down and it would take about a week to bring back on line there shouldnt be no need for the gates to be picketed as there will be nothing getting produced ,the guy who owns the place a guy called jim ratcliffe has stated that he will shut the whole scotland down if we dont back down cheeky git steals 40 million quid from us and wants us to back down from friday to the day he has lost over 7 million quid

[Tizzer22]

So i guess by that then there will be panic buying by tomorrow evening?

[father ted]

i wouldnt panic buy as the indusrty hold`s a lot of fuel back depending on where you stay it should be ok for a while as we are shut down it takes a while to start back up you cant just throw a switch and it goes on lol it would take over 3 weeks to get back up and running again

[Tizzer22]

I only have 4 stations in my area, its the other people though that cause it by panicking and full there tanks and then once fuel stations have shortages the prices will rise, i'll wait the now though and see how my local garage is by later tonight, thanks for the info once again ted.

[father ted]

I only have 4 stations in my area, its the other people though that cause it by panicking and full there tanks and then once fuel stations have shortages the prices will rise, i'll wait the now though and see how my local garage is by later tonight, thanks for the info once again ted.

your wellcome ill be able to update tomoorw as well but as far as i know talks are still ongoing so that good thing

[johnny151]

i have contracts delivering newspapers to newsagents and i've been told as it's "media" we're a protected business and if we require filling up we can request a police escort to the filling stations.....anyone heard of this?

[Tizzer22]

The fuels started to dry up here since yesterday evening, thank god i went to the station on Monday night.

[swadger25]

there wont be a shortage.!!!!

[father ted]

trust me there will be no fuel shortage some time 2 night we will unload a ship with fuel for all emercancy servcies ie hospitals fire ambulance,hospitals old folks home children homes police etc etc and this will continue

[gavo2008]

and all the petrol stations round here are putting price up because of the mini rush

[father ted]

and all the petrol stations round here are putting price up because of the mini rush

wot you should do is boycott these ppl they are getting their normal supplies and more so they are selling more petrol and making profits we havnt increased the price of petrol from the refinery to them its them doing it to everyone

[fireman1374]

Hydrogen all the way, water is much cheaper!

[Tizzer22]

Back to normal in my area now.

[father ted]

ok guys update from me this is an actual part from an email sent to us

"A meeting was held in London today between Jim Ratcliffe and Tom Crotty of Ineos and the Joint General Secretaries of Unite, Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley.
"It was a constructive and meaningful discussion and ended in a proposal that will be considered by the company and the union in the coming days with a view to finding a resolution to the pension?s dispute."

It is hoped the proposal will lead to a solution to this dispute.

[father ted]

ok update we have been back to work for 4 days now and we have been working flat out to get the plants up and running by sun we should have alot of them up and running to let yous understand we have some small plant`s to run so that otheres can run its not just a matter of starting up the main one we need little ones all around to make them all tick and this we are doing well (so much for the company saying it would take several weeks lol)anyway have been told we should be producing by tues which is no mean feat ,this does not mean that the dispute is over our full time officials have got some concessions from the company and we are prepaired to talk to them i cant tell you what has been said as i havnt been told fully and we dont want any rumours about what has happened till its been disccused with everyone but will keeps yus informed so far its looking goood but well have to get the full sp and understand it all b4 we can say its finished