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December 2013

 

UK Nuclear: Forefront to Backfoot

 
20th December 2013    |     Peter Rolton: Chairman, Rolton Group

Jim Ratcliffe is a very wealthy man. This fact was evinced by his swift closure of the Grangemouth plant following strike action from UNITE back in October; the union rallied against planned changes to salaries and pensions, and by shutting the site down rather than enter into any sort of bargain he made it perfectly clear that financial security does not rank on his list of concerns.

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Posts from December 2013

UK Nuclear: Forefront to Backfoot

Rolton Group

 
20th December 2013    |     Peter Rolton

Jim Ratcliffe is a very wealthy man. This fact was evinced by his swift closure of the Grangemouth plant following strike action from UNITE back in October; the union rallied against planned changes to salaries and pensions, and by shutting the site down rather than enter into any sort of bargain he made it perfectly clear that financial security does not rank on his list of concerns.

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Stoking the Fuel Poverty Fire

Rolton Group

 
13th December 2013    |     Peter Rolton

It’s been on the back burner for over a year now, but in the last week the heat has been turned up on proposals to redefine fuel poverty.

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