With the spectre of disruption to fuel and power supplies, Mandelson insisted that companies must continue to be allowed to employ staff from overseas. In a blunt message to workers demanding “British jobs for British workers”, he said: “Protectionism would be a sure-fire way of turning recession into depression.”
His tough stance was echoed by Gordon Brown, who condemned plans for further wild-cat strikes tomorrow. “That’s not the right thing to do and it’s not defensible,” he said.
While ministers held emergency meetings with union leaders to try to stem the flow of unofficial protests, militant shop stewards were planning their next moves.
Among the plans which will alarm Downing Street are a national march against foreign workers in London, a national boycott of filling stations owned by Total, the French oil company, and a blockade at a Kent power station
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