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Unite take fight for Grangemouth to Scottish Labour conference
Members of Unite protest outside the Scottish Labour Conference

GRANGEMOUTH workers took the fight for their jobs and the future of their community to the doorstep of the Scottish Labour Conference today.

Rallying behind 400 hard hats — one for each worker set to lose their job — the Unite union and its members called on Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar to live up to his pre-election promises and deliver a Westminister government intervention to save Scotland’s last refinery.

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham told the rally: “The Labour government, these Labour politicians and the Scottish government are on the verge of colluding in a catastrophe.

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