Offshore union RMT is to operate an information and support desk for oil workers at Aberdeen Airport from Monday.
The desk will be there for two weeks before moving on to other airports south of the border. The union’s regional organiser, Jake Molloy, said yesterday: “We are being inundated with concerns about wage cuts and redundancies, and how these cuts may impact on health and safety performance.
“While we’ll be using this exercise to provide information and support to workers, we will also be taking time to gather information about the effects of the cost cutting.”
RMT said the geographical and logistical problems associated with the offshore industry made it extremely difficult to visit workers at their place of employment.
Union general secretary Bob Crow said: “We are upping our game in an effort to assist workers through these difficult times.
“Aberdeen Airport has the biggest throughput of offshore workers in the UK, that’s why we chose the location to kick off this campaign.
“We are taking our support and organisational services directly to the workers, to the nearest and most accessible point of contact to their place of work.”
RMT said that, following Aberdeen, the plan is to take the support desk to Humberside, then Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Blackpool.
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