"But Unite's Sharon Graham, head of the union which represents workers at the refinery, warned Sir Keir needed to rescue the government's industrial strategy with fresh investment to protect jobs. Urging him to "wake up and smell the coffee", Ms Graham said there could be no growth agenda when the country's industries were shedding jobs. Jamie Dalgetty, Unite branch chairman at East Lindsay, said workers had lost faith in Miliband and his junior energy minister, Michael Shanks."
""They've got to have a plan for British industry, you cannot just do this piecemeal," she said, comparing Germany's 1 trillion plan for energy diversification to the UK's 50bn. "It doesn't make any sense for a growth plan if you're allowing oil refineries to shut down and other parts of British industry to shut down," she said. "We need to have the money, like Germany's just done, they've changed their fiscal rules, we need to have the money to invest in these jobs.""
Oil workers called for Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to go as a second UK oil refinery moved towards closure, with 125 job losses announced at the East Lindsey site. Unite's Sharon Graham urged Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to rescue the government's industrial strategy with fresh investment to protect jobs, saying there could be no growth agenda while industries shed jobs. Unite branch chairman Jamie Dalgetty said workers had lost faith in Miliband and junior energy minister Michael Shanks and demanded their removal. Graham compared Germany's 1 trillion energy diversification plan to the UK's 50bn and called for equivalent investment and government intervention to support takeover bids and safeguard jobs.
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