1. July 5th, 2007 11:06
Thank you for your response. I totally agree that the staff implications of a merger are paramount. Both corporations have fine staff – arguably their most valuable assets. Shell was rather cavalier in letting staff go (even very skilled and experienced people in the upstream) on cost grounds some years ago. They paid the price and have been very actively recruiting over the past couple of years or so. One of the benefits of a Shell/BP merger must be a degree of rationalisation throughout the organisation and no doubt a combine Shell/BP would require many fewer staff at all levels than two separate companies.
As far as pensioners are concerned I certainly agree. I am active in the Shell Pensioner world on various fronts and if a merger does come about I will be fighting hard to protect the interests of the Shell pensioner community here in the UK. Concerns about Pensions are in the forefront of comments about the other current Anglo Dutch corporation merger in the news at the moment (ICI and Akzo). Here is what the FT reported:
“Pension trustees are insisting on a central role in any takeover talks between the UK chemicals group and Akzo Nobel, the Dutch conglomerate. The demand came yesterday as ICI rejected a takeover proposal from Akzo valued at £7.2bn. A spokesman for ICI’s pension trustees said: “We would have expected to have an early and direct conversation… “
Paddy Briggs
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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