2009 | oil | Standard Oil | 2009 in music | Gulf Oil | Deepwater Horizon oil spill | Shell Oil Company | Avatar (2009 film) | American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 | New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2009 | Midnight Oil | 1973 oil crisis | oil refinery | Eurovision Song Contest 2009 | oil painting | Lindsey Graham | 2009 Summer Universiade | 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships | 2009 NFL season | The Empire Strikes Back | Oil platform | Castor oil plant | 2009 World Championships in Athletics | Oil Campaign of World War II | European Parliament election, 2009 | 2009 Southeast Asian Games | 2009 WTA Tour | 2009 ATP World Tour | United Football League (2009) | refinery |
The Directive came to prominence during the 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes after British workers at the Lindsey Oil Refinery in North Killingholme, North Lincolnshire claimed that they were being undercut by skilled foreign labour when the Italian construction contractor IREM appointed several hundred European (mainly Italian and Portuguese) contractors on the site at a time of high unemployment in the local and global economy.