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Some incidents were reported at European refiners in recent weeks. ** Austria’s OMV said June 8 that it anticipates “longer repair work” at its Schwechat refinery and is looking at new supply options. The restart of Schwechat from maintenance has been delayed following an incident at the crude distillation unit on June 3. The turnaround ...

Thousands of metalworkers in Spain continue strikes for new collective agreements, joined by teacher walkouts over work conditions; thousands of German steelworkers and dockers at six ports join warning strikes over pay; construction workers building new Metro and transport workers in Thessaloniki, Greece demand protection from Covid-19 after outbreak; protests by workers in Palestinian West Bank as prices rise 30 percent since March; after isolating three-month strike at South African Sibanye-S...

Strikes at the Exxon Fawley Refinery near Southampton ends as workers get a pay rise.

General strike in Italy to protest government spending on war; Strikes continue across French transport network including bus, tram and rail workers over pay and conditions.

AROUND 100 workers are set for five days of strikes at a Hampshire oil refinery next month.

The wildcat strikes have been subject to a virtual media blackout at a time when profit gouging by oil and gas companies is sending household energy bills spiralling, adding to the disastrous cost-of-living crisis for millions.

Any genuine organisation of workers would have gone on to explain what action was being taken to overturn this victimisation. Instead Unite declared, “Strikes have currently been suspended to allow for renewed negotiations.”

A UNION involved in a pay dispute at Fawley refinery has condemned the "outrageous" decision to suspend one of its reps.

A picketer told the WSWS, “it is time to start fighting for our rights because we run this place really. It’s thanks to us, and yet they don’t want to give us anything and treat us like we’re nothing.”

The ExxonMobil facility on the south coast of England is the largest oil refinery in the UK, supplying a sixth of all petrol stations across the country and all airports.