By Fred Pals
Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) — Workers at Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s 420,000 barrel-a-day Pernis refinery in Rotterdam, Europe’s largest, rejected a wage proposal in a final voting round today, a union official said.
All 500 union members that voted in two sessions today rejected Shell’s offer, said Egbert Schellenberg, head of the FNV Bondgenoten union, in a telephone interview. “We will demand a new proposal from Shell tomorrow,” Schellenberg said. Labor actions, including a strike, can’t be excluded if Shell doesn’t come up with an improved proposal, he added.
Talks concluded Jan. 31 after Shell presented its final offer. Union leaders want more than the annual 3.5 percent wage increase for the next two years proposed by management. The current labor agreement expires March 1.
Pernis, an integrated oil-processing plant that specializes in refining Middle Eastern crude, also makes chemicals such as brake fluids and solvents.
To contact the reporter on this story: Fred Pals in Amsterdam at [email protected]
Last Updated: February 14, 2008 15:30 EST
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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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