WILDCAT strikers who received support from workers at Fiddlers Ferry have been sacked.
Cheshire workers downed tools in support of staff at the Lindsey oil refinery as support spread across the country, but the Unite Union says 900 of the Lincolnshire workers have been sacked.
The dispute flared a week ago when a contractor laid off 51 workers while another employer on the site was hiring staff.
Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, said he had been in touch with the conciliation service Acas and was seeking an urgent meeting with the head of Total to try to break the deadlock.
Unite said it was “extremely concerned” about Total’s actions and is understood to be working behind the scenes to facilitate immediate talks with Total’s local management.
Earlier, industrial action had flared up at stations in Eggborough in Yorkshire, Ratcliffe and West Burton in Nottinghamshire and Aberthaw, in South Wales.
