Will it affect you or anyone you know? Will it have a massive impact across Scotland... The owner of the Grangemouth petrochemical plant is to close the operation but keep the major oil refinery amid a bitter dispute with staff over pay and conditions. The move is understood to threaten up to 800 jobs at the petrochemicals business and owner Ineos said it would be keeping closed the refinery, which provides most of Scotland's fuel, until the threat of industrial action was removed. Workers were given the news at a meeting with Ineos petrochemicals chairman Calum MacLean following the passing of a deadline on a survival plan put to employees which asked them to accept changes to pensions and other terms and conditions. The Unite union said around 680 of the site's total 1,370-strong workforce had rejected the company's proposals, which included a pay freeze for 2014-16, removal of a bonus up to 2016, a reduced shift allowance and ending of the final salary pension scheme. http://news.sky.com/story/1158553/job-losses-as-petrochemical-plant-to-close ........................................... Can't see owt on the first page, but if discussed loads delete this ****er, just seen it on breaking news on sky.
