strike threat at oil refinery

**father ted** · 18th April, 2008, 06:46 PM

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** · 18th April, 2008, 06:57 PM

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

edit: just put 50 holes in just in case

**Devilfish** · 18th April, 2008, 07:26 PM

Thanks for the heads up Ted m8.

**father ted** · 18th April, 2008, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by smirnoff_rules

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

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** · 20th April, 2008, 04:03 PM

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

**C64** · 20th April, 2008, 04:10 PM

Father Ted, you died too early

I think my car is running on fumes.

**smirnoff_rules** · 20th April, 2008, 04:14 PM

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...TtmQ8&refer=uk

news on the dispute

**krazylegz** · 20th April, 2008, 07:20 PM

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

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

**Salami** · 21st April, 2008, 01:11 AM

God Bless you father and thanx for the useful info.

a couple pints of diesel will do fine till the strike is over

**Salami** · 21st April, 2008, 01:15 AM

Originally Posted by krazylegz

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

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

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

**father ted** · 21st April, 2008, 09:13 AM

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** · 21st April, 2008, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by 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

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** · 21st April, 2008, 03:54 PM

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

**father ted** · 21st April, 2008, 04:46 PM

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