Deal offered to striking construction workers at Lincolnshire plant is expected to be accepted today

Union leaders are to urge workers at the Lindsey oil refinery to end their strikes this morning at a mass meeting at the north Lincolnshire site.

According to reports, workers will vote on a deal thrashed out with oil company Total last week, which is thought to include the reinstatement of 647 workers fired for taking unofficial industrial action, plus new jobs for the 51 redundancies that sparked the dispute.

The row was followed last week by sympathy wildcat strikes by M&E contractors at power station sites across the country, including Drax power station in Yorkshire and Sellafield in Cumbria.

But over the weekend a senior GMB union official, Phil Whitehurst, told a crowd at the Glastonbury festival that he expected the Lindsey workers to accept the deal and go back to work today.

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