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Workers at Kilroot down tools in support of foreign worker protests
Saturday, 31 January 2009
Employees at a Kilroot Power Station engineering project staged a stoppage yesterday in support of the foreign worker protests in Great Britain.
The action involved around 60 workers at contractor AMEC, which is involved in a major emission reduction scheme at Kilroot.
One of those who took part in the stoppage described it as a “token” protest and an act of “solidarity” with wildcat strikes across the water. He also stated that there were no foreign workers at AMEC’s Kilroot project.
The action did not affect the operation of the power station at Carrickfergus.
It’s understood AMEC workers at Kilroot finish normally finish on Friday afternoons at around 2pm.
A spokesman for AMEC said: “We confirm that there has been a temporary stoppage of work by around 60 workers on an engineering upgrade project.
“It is not a dispute between AMEC and the workforce. We emphasise that it does not affect the running of the power station in any way.”
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Sammy Wilson must be proud.
Posted by ZoonPol | 02.02.09, 12:09 GMT
local jobs for local people, how would brit workers be treated in eastern europe in similar circumstances???
Posted by Rhat-CF-Scribe | 01.02.09, 02:01 GMT
It is about time that British workers fought back to get our jobs and country back.All British workers should be supporting them 100% to keep British jobs for British workers and for our children in the future.We should ignore what Europe say as the majority of British people would most likely vote against it.This goverment has destroyed the economy and now want to take our jobs away.They said that about 13,000 would come from new EU states now we have tens of thousands.I hope this is the start of the British people fighting back against the traitors of this labour goverment and the PC brigade who are destroying our country.
Posted by John Mulholland | 31.01.09, 20:14 GMT
Sammy Wilson has been vilified for putting local workers first in the current economic state. Seems there is more than him who feels this way. Has the U.K. finally started to wise up to the dangers of European integration. Oh how I wish.
Posted by T. Mitchell | 31.01.09, 19:14 GMT
Its really sad that UK being a part of EU openly breach European Law and discriminate other EU nations working in UK whereas many british people work in other european countries also affected by credit crunch. I am european living in UK seven years, not less qualified then local people, even far better I would say, I do not work for less wage then local but the same, I pay tax,NIN contributions, morgage repayments as anyone else here and during my stay here I have learned one lesson - you will have more unemployed british people in UK leaving off benefit allowance simply because they do not want to work then number of foreigners working in UK.
Posted by Lena | 31.01.09, 12:49 GMT