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If Ineos Refuse to run Grangemouth the workers will
Workers call for public ownership after bosses axe chemical plant

Nationalise Grangemouth.

The call came thick and fast yesterday after an allegedly smiling chairman Calum Maclean told workers at Scotland's crucial petrochemicals plant yesterday that the firm will axe the site's entire petrochemicals arm in 60 days.

Trade unionists and politicians expressed shock and anger alongside some 800 people facing lay-offs after the company said it "could not see a future for Grangemouth."

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