The wave of strikes that swept the UK last week is expected to escalate today with thousands more employees planning walkouts in protest at the exclusion of British workers from construction contracts. The centre of last week's dispute, Total's Lindsey refinery on the Humber estuary, will again be the focal point, with workers from around the country pledging to join the 500 wildcat strikers who gathered outside the desulphurisation plant on Friday - The Guardian
Britain is braced for more wildcat strikes after a day of confusion in the government that failed to resolve the row over foreign workers. Up to 1,000 construction workers at Sellafield, the nuclear reprocessing facility, will decide today whether to join the walkout over building jobs, which unions claim are being handed straight to overseas workers - The Times
Ministers have ordered an investigation into allegations that companies are using loopholes in European law to exclude British workers from construction jobs in this country. Trade unions have claimed that skilled British workers are being barred from applying for jobs with firms using obscure European law, such as legal rulings on the Postal Services Directive, to justify their behaviour - The Daily Telegraph
The most senior figure in nuclear safety has defended the regulation of an atomic power station barely 50 miles from the centre of London that leaked radioactive material for 14 years. Mike Weightman, chief inspector at the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, said it was not possible to "inspect or check every feature of a complex plant" - The Guardian
The price of carbon dioxide in the European Union has fallen so low it no longer provides an incentive to low-carbon development, and seems unlikely to do so in the near future. Permits to emit the gas, issued by the EU's emissions trading scheme (Euets), have tested record lows in the past two weeks and now trade at about £10.42, according to analyst Point Carbon - Financial Times
Britain is braced for more wildcat strikes after a day of confusion in the government that failed to resolve the row over foreign workers. Up to 1,000 construction workers at Sellafield, the nuclear reprocessing facility, will decide today whether to join the walkout over building jobs, which unions claim are being handed straight to overseas workers - The Times
Ministers have ordered an investigation into allegations that companies are using loopholes in European law to exclude British workers from construction jobs in this country. Trade unions have claimed that skilled British workers are being barred from applying for jobs with firms using obscure European law, such as legal rulings on the Postal Services Directive, to justify their behaviour - The Daily Telegraph
The most senior figure in nuclear safety has defended the regulation of an atomic power station barely 50 miles from the centre of London that leaked radioactive material for 14 years. Mike Weightman, chief inspector at the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, said it was not possible to "inspect or check every feature of a complex plant" - The Guardian
The price of carbon dioxide in the European Union has fallen so low it no longer provides an incentive to low-carbon development, and seems unlikely to do so in the near future. Permits to emit the gas, issued by the EU's emissions trading scheme (Euets), have tested record lows in the past two weeks and now trade at about £10.42, according to analyst Point Carbon - Financial Times
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