By Reza Amanat
Last update: 9:03 a.m. EST March 5, 2008
LONDON (MarketWatch) — Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Dutch unions representing energy workers, have reached agreement over a 5.5% pay rise in 2008, for workers at Shell’s 420,000 barrel-a-day Pernis oil refinery, a union representative confirmed Wednesday.
The agreement includes an annual pay rise of 3.5% starting from March 1 and lasting until March 1, 2010, with an additional pay rise of 2% in the first year, after union representatives agreed workers would give up four days of annual leave.
The agreement has to be accepted by union members who are expected to vote on the deal on March 11, Shell spokesman Wim Van de Wiel said. “We expect union representatives to send a positive message to their members about the deal,” he added.
It is unclear how many staff are affected by this deal, which also covers workers at the Moerdijk chemical plant.
FNV Bondgenoten’s union leader, Egbert Schellenberg, told Dow Jones Newswires that 2,300 employees will be directly affected.
However, Van de Wiel said: “according to our estimates, the deal will affect 2,100 employees.”
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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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