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MORE than 500 oil refinery workers in Cheshire are heading for strike action which could hit aviation fuel supplies to Liverpool and Manchester airports.
Unite the union is holding a consultative ballot among 530 members at Stanlow oil refinery, Ellesmere Port, over “a gigantic deterioration” in industrial relations following the appointment of a new senior executive.
Unite regional officer Patrick Coyne said: “Previously excellent industrial relations have been seriously eroded with the recent appointment of a senior executive who, we say, has ridden roughshod over an agreement we signed just in March.”
The union said the executive had refused to meet union conveners and that the decision to ballot had been prompted by “hostility from management.”
The consultative ballot, which is expected this month, will probably give the go-ahead to a full-scale ballot on industrial action.
The site produces around 16 per cent of UK transport fuels.
