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There can be no compromises on health & safety in the workforce introduced under the camouflage of ‘cutting bureaucracy’, Unite has said. Unite was commenting as Employment minister, Chris Grayling unveiled proposals which could mean that inspections in Britain’s workplaces could be slashed by 11,000 annually, with future automatic practice inspections targeted on high risk sites, such as the nuclear and chemical industries....
With the visit to the UK this week of the Chilean prime minister, Sebastian Pinera, Unite is calling on the Coalition government not to back slide on essential health and safety at work measures....
Unite has stressed to the government the importance of securing the Wilton plant, the only UK plant still making ethylene oxide (EO) and as such pivotal to the continuation of the UK chemical industry. However, the site is facing run down as operators on the site close. ...
Unite is to ballot its members for strike action at seven major power and petrochemical plants across Britain. The ballot will run from 11 August and end on 1 September with any agreed industrial action following shortly after....
The national officer for the chemical sector at Britain's largest trade union has expressed deep concern over the state of the UK's chemicals industry following news that The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) intends to 'walk away' from its Teesside operation. The union fears that a chain reaction of closures across the UK's chemicals sector following last week's news that Dow – one of the world's biggest chemical companies – is to close its Wilton Plant in Teesside next January....
Dow, one of the world's biggest chemical companies, is to pull out of its Wilton plant in Teesside. This will not only devastate a community already battered by job losses but will also destabilise the vital UK chemical sector, warns Unite, the UK's largest union. Dow will walk away from the plant in January 2010 with the immediate loss of up to 260 skilled jobs in the north east....