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Lads hit the gates at LOR,ConocoPhillips and West Burton power station

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workers including scaffolders to join job losses protest on North Bank.

Workers at the ConocoPhillips oil refinery and Lindsey oil refinery with same reports coming from West Burton power station.

They have agreed this morning to join a protest over job losses at the Salt End Power Station on the North Bank.

They will join a mass protest in Salt End and Hull on Monday, organised by 400 workers who lost their jobs at the plant when their employer Redhall Engineering Solutions Ltd lost a contract for work on the site.

Redhall workers from the area arrived at the gates of both ConocoPhillips and the Lindsey oil refineries at around 6am this morning to try and gain support for the protest.

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