Oil refinery workers stage walk out

MORE Than 500 contractors walked out of the Lindsey Oil refinery at Killingholme today in protest over the employment of foreign labour.

The British contractors, who are members of trade Unions Unite and GMB, have told Refinery bosses they will not return to work until Monday.

Demonstrations are planned outside the site gates tomorrow and Friday.

Lindsey Oil Refinery chiefs have yet to make a comment on the walk-out, but a spokesman for the contractors said: "We want to see the jobs for foreign contractors matched equally by UK craftsmen."

It has been confirmed around 400 Portuguese and Italian contractors have been hired to work on a £200-million hydro de-sulphurisation plant.

They will be accommodated in barges berthed in Grimsby docks.