Italian Jobs for British Workers

I’m indebted to Justin at Chicken Yoghurt for alerting me to this article from La Repubblica:

“PORTO VIRO (Rovigo) – ‘It’s a pity – È un peccato – I love working with the Italians, I love Italy. I just hope this Ssuff about the Grimsby refinery is just a one-off’. Brian has just got back from the oil rig in the Adriatic where one hundred Brits, along with two hundred Italian and foreign colleagues, are working cheek by jowl on a regasifier that will provide 10% of our country with methane. He doesn’t want to talk, as he walks out from the Porto Viro base, guarded like  a barracks, where another one hundred employees work, mostly from Exxon Mobil: British, American, Norwegian, Italian… But the news of those walkouts against the “Italians” arrive like a bad omen. The ghost of a sour story that may turn up here as well. Which is why many of them clock out with their heads down, without uttering a word, sidestepping the questions.