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Everybody Out - 2 - Mass Meeting Ahead of Oil Strike
They will be addressed by union leaders, who will brief them on the latest situation.
About 1,200 members of the Unite union are to walk out on Sunday and Monday in a pensions row with plant owners Ineos.
Unions have warned that the strike could be escalated after talks between the two sides broke down on Wednesday.
Tony Woodley, the joint general secretary of the Unite trade union, is expected to pledge his solidarity with the workers' cause at the meeting.
Grangemouth operator Ineos and Unite held two days of talks at conciliation service Acas which failed to resolve the dispute.
Negotiating table
They have been urged to get back around the negotiating table as the prospect of a strike looms closer.
Calls from motoring organisations for drivers not to panic buy continued as business at the petrol pumps remained steady.
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has told MSPs that the country had "ample and sufficient" petrol and diesel stocks to last well into May in the event of the refinery closing.
He said that further stocks could be imported if necessary as a result of the two-day strike.
BP has warned that the industrial action could also force the closure of its Forties pipeline which delivers 30% of the UK's daily oil output.
Grangemouth
Grangemouth powers the BP Kinneil processing plant, which receives about 725,000 barrels of crude oil and 80 million cubic metres of gas a day from the pipeline.
The offshore oil industry body Oil and Gas UK warned that this could cost the economy an estimated £50m a day in lost production.
Airport operator BAA has advised airlines to refuel at the point of origin where possible in order to safeguard fuel reserves.
On Tuesday, Ineos announced it was taking legal action against Unite for "inaccurate and misleading" public comments made during the dispute.
The company said Unite had claimed that Ineos had stripped £40m from the Grangemouth pension fund when it was transferred in 2005.
Ineos said it had received a letter from Unite in which the union acknowledged that the company had not stripped assets from the current plan.
An Ineos spokesman said the writ against the company was still active.
A Unite spokeswoman said: "Unite believes that it is legitimate to comment that Ineos are responsible for the current pension plan being valued about £40m below what the value would have been had the full value of the fund been transferred in 2005."
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