Letter to Grangemouth Complex Director
from T & G
Dear Robin,
Following a meeting on Friday 7 May with our
local MP, MSP and the trade unions Regional and National Officers
we have a number of questions and requests relating to the recent
announcement on the sale of the Olefins & Derivatives business
which we have attached to this letter.
The General Secretaries of both the T&G
and Amicus have requested a meeting with Lord Browne and it is
imperative that we are in receipt of the answers to our questions
and the information requested, prior to this meeting that we expect
to be held within the next couple of weeks.
We would like to formally request a meeting
with Jim White and Jon Mills as soon as is possible.
We would also formally request that a meeting
with the Senior Stewards Negotiating Team and the GLT is convened
as soon as practicable to discuss the company proposals to dispose
of O&D and its impact on the Grangemouth Complex.
We look forward to your early reply.
Yours sincerely
Russell Gray
Mark Lyon
10 May 2004
TRADE UNION
QUESTIONS AND
REQUESTS
Can you provide us with all relevant information
supporting the original business case for site integration and
can you detail the exact financial benefits of the synergies achieved
over the last few years?
Can you provide us with all relevant information
supporting the business and economic case for de-integration and
detail this for us from a Grangemouth perspective including information
on the benefits achieved from economies of scale and the cost
of reversing this?
Please furnish us with all documentation that
BP employed to convince the workforce of the case for bringing
the site together as one Complex.
Please provide us with details on the practical
and logistical contribution that Chemicals makes to the other
two businesses on site—Refinery and FPS.
How much has BP factored in to their figures the
financial contribution that Chemicals makes to the Refinery and
FPS?
Please provide us with information on the HSE
case for creating two separate COMAH sites etc.
Do you have examples of a third party exerting
undue leverage on the "host" partner within this type
of arrangement?
You will appreciate that in continuance of first
class IR we are very anxious that we are not presented with a
"fait accompli". With this in mind can you please detail
the timetable for meaningful consultation and negotiations at
Grangemouth?
What are BP's long-term future intentions for
operations, specifically at Grangemouth and generally within Scotland?
Please provide us with detail of the information
given to Jim White and Jon Mills on Wednesday by the GLT.
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