Workers at an oil refinery in recession-hit Britain voted Thursday to end their strike over foreign labour after they were offered half of the jobs on a disputed contract.
Hundreds of workers at the Lindsey plant owned by French company Total in Lincolnshire, eastern England, voted to end their wildcat action after accepting a deal drawn up by union officials and the companies involved.
Under the deal, British workers will take up 102 of the 198 new jobs on a project contracted to an Italian company which originally employed Italian and Portuguese workers to carry out the work.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown had appealed to the workers to accept the compromise deal to defuse an acrimonious row that sparked wildcat strikes last week at more than 20 oil and gas facilities and the Sellafield nuclear plant.
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