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Yahoo
18-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Workers at huge site 'set to go hungry' in row over 'poverty pay'
Canteen staff at Fawley refinery are set to strike in a move their union says will leave fellow workers at the huge site "famished". Caterers employed by the London-based Compass Group are threatening to walk out later this month and again in August over what the union Unite describes as "poverty pay". Unite claims that canteen workers receive only slightly more than the minimum wage. According to the union, Compass is the world's largest catering provider and made more than £1.2bn in operating profits in the six months to March 2025. Canteen staff at Fawley refinery are set to strike over what their union describes as 'poverty pay' (Image: Stephen Bath) Unite's general secretary, Sharon Graham, said: "The Compass Group is a hugely rich company that is refusing these workers a fair pay rise. "Unite will not let this happen - the Fawley canteen workers have their union's full support in taking strike action for as long as is necessary." READ MORE: ExxonMobil Fawley to burn blue flares in the New Forest Two strikes on July 25-28 and August 1-4 will involve more than 20 staff at three facilities. Rebecca Johns-Lawrence, the union's regional officer, said: "Esso will not be happy that workers at Fawley will be famished. "There is still time to avoid industrial action but that will require the company putting forward an acceptable offer, which Fawley bosses should be pressuring Compass to do." Canteen staff at Fawley refinery are set to strike over what their union describes as 'poverty pay' (Image: Stephen Bath) The refinery occupies a 3,250-acre site and is the largest facility of its type in the UK. It makes a wide range of everyday products using processes that provide employment for more than 2,500 staff and contractors. A spokesperson for Eurest, which is part of Compass, said: "We are disappointed by the decision of our employees to ballot for industrial action. "We have proposed a pay offer we believe is fair in light of the current economic backdrop. Our colleagues are all paid Real Living Wage or above and have access to a range of benefits. We remain open to resolving this issue swiftly. 'We have put in place alternative arrangements to ensure catering is still provided to the employees on site while industrial action is underway." Esso is part of ExxonMobil, which said the proposed strikes were not in anyone's interest. "We encourage employers and representatives to work together constructively to reach a resolution as quickly as possible. We have taken contingencies to ensure on-site personnel are not impacted."
01-06-2025
- Sport
No. 10 Ole Miss blasts 6 home runs to eliminate Western Kentucky from the Oxford Regional
OXFORD, Miss. -- Mitchell Sanford, Judd Utermark and Austin Fawley each had a multi-homer game and No. 10 national seed Mississippi beat Western Kentucky 8-6 on Saturday in the Oxford Regional. It marked the first time since at least 1997 that three Rebels each hit two home runs in a game. Ole Miss (41-20) plays another elimination game on Sunday against the loser of Georgia Tech and Murray State. The season for Western Kentucky (46-14) came to a close with the second-most single-season wins in program history. Sanford led off the game with a home run to right field and added his 17th of the season in the sixth for a 7-3 lead. Fawley followed in the second with Ole Miss' 109th home run of the season, setting the program's single-season record and giving Ole Miss a 3-2 lead. Fawley also hit a homer to center — his 19th of the season — in the fourth for a 4-3 lead. Utermark cleared the batter's eye for the second time in the tournament to make it 6-3 in the fifth with a 438-foot blast. Utermark sent a shot over the right-field wall in the seventh for his 19th of the season and the team's 113th. Ole Miss starter Hunter Elliott (10-3) through six complete innings and allowed just one earned run on eight hits with seven strikeouts and three walks. He became the fourth Rebel in program history to have two seasons with 100 strikeouts.
Fox Sports
01-06-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
No. 10 Ole Miss blasts 6 home runs to eliminate Western Kentucky from the Oxford Regional
Associated Press OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Mitchell Sanford, Judd Utermark and Austin Fawley each had a multi-homer game and No. 10 national seed Mississippi beat Western Kentucky 8-6 on Saturday in the Oxford Regional. It marked the first time since at least 1997 that three Rebels each hit two home runs in a game. Ole Miss (41-20) plays another elimination game on Sunday against the loser of Georgia Tech and Murray State. The season for Western Kentucky (46-14) came to a close with the second-most single-season wins in program history. Sanford led off the game with a home run to right field and added his 17th of the season in the sixth for a 7-3 lead. Fawley followed in the second with Ole Miss' 109th home run of the season, setting the program's single-season record and giving Ole Miss a 3-2 lead. Fawley also hit a homer to center — his 19th of the season — in the fourth for a 4-3 lead. Utermark cleared the batter's eye for the second time in the tournament to make it 6-3 in the fifth with a 438-foot blast. Utermark sent a shot over the right-field wall in the seventh for his 19th of the season and the team's 113th. Ole Miss starter Hunter Elliott (10-3) through six complete innings and allowed just one earned run on eight hits with seven strikeouts and three walks. He became the fourth Rebel in program history to have two seasons with 100 strikeouts. ___ AP college sports: in this topic
Winnipeg Free Press
01-06-2025
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
No. 10 Ole Miss blasts 6 home runs to eliminate Western Kentucky from the Oxford Regional
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Mitchell Sanford, Judd Utermark and Austin Fawley each had a multi-homer game and No. 10 national seed Mississippi beat Western Kentucky 8-6 on Saturday in the Oxford Regional. It marked the first time since at least 1997 that three Rebels each hit two home runs in a game. Ole Miss (41-20) plays another elimination game on Sunday against the loser of Georgia Tech and Murray State. The season for Western Kentucky (46-14) came to a close with the second-most single-season wins in program history. Sanford led off the game with a home run to right field and added his 17th of the season in the sixth for a 7-3 lead. Fawley followed in the second with Ole Miss' 109th home run of the season, setting the program's single-season record and giving Ole Miss a 3-2 lead. Fawley also hit a homer to center — his 19th of the season — in the fourth for a 4-3 lead. Utermark cleared the batter's eye for the second time in the tournament to make it 6-3 in the fifth with a 438-foot blast. Utermark sent a shot over the right-field wall in the seventh for his 19th of the season and the team's 113th. Ole Miss starter Hunter Elliott (10-3) through six complete innings and allowed just one earned run on eight hits with seven strikeouts and three walks. He became the fourth Rebel in program history to have two seasons with 100 strikeouts. ___ AP college sports:
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Potential changes to Riverside Park considered during grant application
Scrolling through renderings, Logansport Parks Administrator Janet Fawley showed off what could be a future Riverside Park. A colorful new playground — likely with some thematic link to Logansport's rivers, railroad history or the Dentzel Carousel — would welcome children. A new stage flanked by a large recreational field and a smaller greenspace would host concerts in the park. Three circular piers would let the park's visitors get up close to the Eel River. Among the key points in the proposed changes were the playground and the installation of a roundabout near the McHale Complex's entrance so people with mobility issues can have better access to the facility. 'I think it'll be really important for this community, for this park, to have that big, iconic playground,' Fawley said, noting continued growth along the riverfront. 'That's really the feature, I think. If we don't do anything else, that's the thing that we really need to do.' The proposed changes come with a more than $2.5 million price tag. Fawley plans to submit them to the Department of Natural Resources in an application for the Land & Water Conservation Fund grant, which would cover up to $1 million. The grant must be matched by local funding, so she would also ask the City of Logansport and its Redevelopment Commission for $500,000 each. The grant application is due Aug. 1, so Fawley would need to know whether local entities are up to funding the changes soon. She explained the plans could also be trimmed to make the proposal cheaper. Fawley said the DNR would likely take a year or so to review the grant application. If they accept it, the application would move on to the National Park Service.
