Strikes over safety at Alstom gas plant
February 16, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
Up to 500 workers are to vote on a second day of wildcat strikes over “serious
safety concerns” at a gas power station under construction in
Nottinghamshire.
By Rowena Mason, City Reporter (Energy)
Published: 6:50PM GMT 16 Feb 2010
The workers are contractors for Alstom, which is building the £600m Staythorpe
plant for German utility giant RWE npower.
They claim that scaffolding was tampered with and called for an immediate
inspection. In recent weeks there have also been disagreements about foreign
contractors and job losses, which caused separate unofficial strikes last
year.
Hundreds of workers from the site spontaneously begun to demonstrate …
Read the original article at Telegraph