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Article: Safety fears led to workers' walkout ; BoC contractors back on site after row over foreign labour
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- Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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THE North Lincolnshire contractors caught up in the foreign
labour row at the BoC gas plant in Scunthorpe have agreed to go back
to work.
As reported, 25 workers downed tools on Tuesday at the Warren
Road site in a row over foreign labour.
They have now resumed normal working, pending further talks
between their unions and bosses.
The 25 held an off-site meeting with Bernard McAuley, the
national organiser for the construction industry for Unite, who
earlier held talks with the Warwickshire-based company of Pomanex.
He said: "We believe the companies working there from outside the
country are working outside the health and safety regulations.
"There are serious health and safety issues to be ...