Strikes spread across Britain as oil refinery protest escalates | Business | guardian.co.uk
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7859968.stm
From a dispute in one area over the awarding of a 200m GBP contract to an Italian firm who will bring in 300 of their own workers from abroad, sympathy strikes and pickets are popping up all over the UK.
This is noteworthy as, at least as far as I know, sympathy strikes and picketing are illegal in the UK, and haven't been seen on any scale since the mid-eighties and the miner's strikes.
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