Petrol queues as tanker strike talks continue
- The Guardian,
- Thursday June 12 2008
Talks aimed at averting a strike planned for tomorrow by hundreds of tanker drivers continued last night amid signs of motorists panic-buying petrol.
Leaders of the Unite union were meeting officials of two companies working on Shell delivery contracts in a bid to resolve a row over pay, but were struggling to find a resolution.
The government repeated its request to motorists not to panic-buy as queues started at some garages. “We want the public to continue to buy as normal so as to avoid creating problems that might otherwise not exist,” said a Downing Street spokesman.
Contingency plans include maintaining fuel supplies to the emergency services. Tony Hayward, the chief executive of BP, said his company was implementing a “well-rehearsed” programme to try to minimise the impact of any strike at Shell garages, which make up one in 10 of all stations.
The tanker drivers claim they are paid the same now as they were in 1992, just under £32,000 a year, despite working 11 more hours a week.
Bernie Holloway, spokesman for Hoyer, the biggest of the two transport companies involved in the dispute, said it was “disappointing” that Unite had rejected an improved pay offer last week.
“We believe this was a very good offer that would take the average driver’s pay up to around £39,000,” he said. The company said its improved offer was worth 6.8%.
Unite repeated its call for Shell to get involved in the dispute. “It is no use Shell bosses, who have themselves enjoyed 15%-plus pay increases in the last year, sitting on their hands,” said Unite’s assistant general secretary, Len McCluskey.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/12/oil.royaldutchshell
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
