Offshore caterers balloted on strike action vote
A trade union has launched a ballot to ask offshore caterers whether they want to vote on strike action.
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Exclusive: Revolutionary North Sea scheme will emulate football free transfers in bid to save jobs
The North Sea oil and gas industry is looking to a football-style loan transfer scheme to resolve skills shortages after it emerges from a long and brutal downturn.
Unions accuse employers of ‘savage attack’ on terms for offshore caterers
Offshore caterers will vote on whether to accept a pay freeze from North Sea employers next week.
Trade unions accuse Bilfinger of attacking workers’ rights
A trio of trade unions today slammed Bilfinger Salamis’ decision to withdraw from the Offshore Contractors Association (OCA) agreement.
Jake Molloy: How Chinook changed the lives of families, workers and my perspective
On November 6th 1986 when the Chinook took the lives of 45 workers I was at home, redundant like many thousands more due to the 1986 downturn.
North Sea strike action: Fresh proposals get green light from unions
The first strike action in more than a generation has come to an end after unions voted to accept fresh proposals from Wood Group.
Ballot begins for North Sea workers on fresh Wood Group proposals
A ballot for North Sea workers on whether to accept changed contract proposals from Wood Group has now opened.
Unions to be balloted over North Sea strike after fresh proposal from Wood Group
Offshore workers will be balloted again next week over North Sea strike action after negotiations brought a fresh proposal form unions and Wood Group.
Wood Group and unions tight lipped on North Sea strike talks
Wood Group and trade unions yesterday remained tight lipped on the progress of crunch talks intended to settle a dispute involving North Sea workers.
Unions suspend North Sea strike action, fresh talks to begin
Trade union and Wood Group have agreed to suspend strikes as they look to resolve an ongoing dispute over pay and conditions on seven of Shell's North Sea assets.
Labour’s shadow Scottish Secretary in Aberdeen to meet with unions
Labour's shadow Scottish Secretary will meet with shop stewards from the North Sea oil and gas industry as strike action rumbles on across seven of Shell's North Sea assets.
Protests to be held as first North Sea strike action in 28 years begins
Protests will be held in support of workers striking for the first time in 28 years’ across seven of Shell’s assets in the North Sea.
Shell says no impact on production expected on eve of North Sea strike action
Oil major Shell said it does not expect any impact on oil production ahead of the first strike action in a generation tomorrow.
Wood Group and unions fail to reach agreement amid strike action
Industrial action is still expected to go-ahead after talks failed to resolve a dispute between unions and Wood Group.
Exclusive: Must resolve workforce dispute for sake of industry’s future, says Wood Group chief
The workforce, unions and industry must resolve the looming strike dispute of the sake of the industry's future, Wood Group's leader today said.
North Sea workers signal strike action for first the time in a generation
North Sea workers have voted in support of strike action across eight Shell assets as a dispute over pay and conditions rumbles on.
Jake Molloy: ‘Escalating from a dispute to complete breakdown in industrial relations’
It’s taken 27 years to get to the point where offshore workers feel compelled to take industrial action and withdraw their labour, but more than that it has taken the belligerence and intransigence of an industry hell bent on making the workforce pay for the mismanagement of the sector!
Shell gears up for North Sea strike with week-on-week contracts
Oil major Shell is preparing back-up staff in case of the first North Sea strike action in a generation.
North Sea strike action: Wood Group “extremely disappointed” with result of ballot
Wood Group said it was "extremely disappointed" with the outcome of a ballot by employees working on Shell assets on whether to take strike action.
Video: Piper Alpha a “turning point” in North Sea safety
RMT regional organiser Jake Molloy has described Piper Alpha as a "turning point" for the North Sea oil and gas industry as relatives and workers met to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the disaster.
Updated: Unions ballot Wood Group members on industrial action over “30% pay cut”
Offshore unions have launched a ballot for industrial action on Wood Group over pay and conditions.
BP job losses a hammer blow to employees, union boss says
BP's plans to reduce its North Sea headcount by 600 will come as a "hammer blow" to staff members and contractors alike, a union boss has said.
Jake Molloy: That was the year….I left the industry
In years to come thousands of former oil and gas workers will look back to 2015 and say; that was the year...... and most likely finish the line with; I left the industry! There will be variations on the theme; I was made redundant; or I started a new career; I got sacked or hounded out, or perhaps, I retired from the industry.
Union brands Total’s fine “slap on the wrist”
An offshore union has branded the fine imposed on Total yesterday a "wholly inadequate slap on the wrist".
“Slash and burn” approach threatens North Sea oil industry
Oil companies’ “slash and burn” approach to cutting the costs of their North Sea interests is putting Scotland’s offshore industry at risk, a union leader has warned Holyrood.