By Mike Cohen
Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) — South African oil industry workers ended a week-long strike that closed two refineries and left hundreds of filling stations dry, after reaching a pay accord with employers.
“The strike is over,” Welile Nolingo, general secretary of the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Wood & Allied Workers Union, said today in a telephone interview from Johannesburg. “We hope that all workers will be back at work today.”
Under the agreement, workers at South Africa’s six refineries and fuel depots will receive 8.5 percent pay increases, backdated to July 1. South Africa’s inflation rate is 6.4 percent.
Hundreds of South Africa’s 4,600 filling stations ran dry after tanker drivers joined the strike, leaving oil companies unable to deliver fuel. The labor action also shut the Sapref refinery, the country’s largest, jointly owned by Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc, as well as a refinery owned by PetroSA. The plants will take at least four days to resume full production.
“We will rely on imports and fuel delivery contractors to ensure uninterrupted availability of all our different products,” Rams Ramashia, chairman of Sapref and BP’s South African unit, said by e-mail today. The wage settlement “can only be in the best interests of the country.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Mike Cohen in Cape Town at [email protected]
Last Updated: August 7, 2007 02:18 EDT
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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.
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