Biofuels workers consider return

Sympathy walkouts took place across the UK

More than 1,000 construction workers at a Teesside biofuels plant are meeting later to decide whether to return to work after a five-day stoppage.

Workers building the Ensus wheat refinery in Wilton stopped work in support of sacked contract staff at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire.

Friday's meeting follows a deal between oil giant Total and unions representing the Lindsay refinery workers.

Protester George Maiden said Teesside workers wanted details of the deal.

Ensus said every day of strike action was a day the company "could not recover".

The Lindsey workers first withdrew their labour on 11 June in protest at a sub-contractor axing 51 jobs while another employer on the site was hiring people.

Just over a week later, the refinery's owners Total announced that 647 workers had been sacked for taking part in the action.

Since then, wildcat sympathy strikes have taken place around the UK.