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Drax Power Station near Selby
MORE than 180 workers at Britain’s biggest power station launched strike action today against what their union called “a classic case of greed.”
Members of the Unite union at Drax power station, near Selby in North Yorkshire, have rejected an 8 per cent pay increase, with strikes set to continue throughout March and April.
Drax power station supplies up to 6 per cent of Britain’s energy needs. Four of its six production units burn biomass fuel.
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