Didcot workers down tools

The following is from the Oxford Mail this evening, linked here:

Fifty workers downed tools and went on strike at Didcot power station today in support of protests against the use of foreign labour at British industrial plants.

RWE npower, which owns the power station, confirmed 50 workers – all contractors working for three firms, Doosan Babcock, Cape and Hertel UK – had gone on strike, but tonight some workers claimed twice as many men could be involved.

The sympathy strike followed walkouts last week by workers at several major plants across the UK, upset at the use of Italian and Portuguese workers on a project at the Lindsey oil refinery in Immingham, Lincolnshire.