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Sacking oil workers 'a disgrace'

Nearly 900 contract workers who walked out in a dispute over 51 redundancies at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire have been sacked. The action at Lindsey has spread over the past few days to other power stations at Drax and Eggborough in Yorkshire, Ratcliffe in Nottinghamshire and BP's Saltend refinery near Hull. Sacked worker John McEwan says the conduct towards him and his colleagues "is a disgrace". Bob Emmerson, general services manager of Total UK, discusses if a resolution can be reached.

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