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WORKERS on offshore installations run by oil and gas giant Petrofac are on strike tomorrow over plummeting take-home pay and working conditions.
Energy union Unite said that about 146 of its members on Petrofac Repsol rigs had begun a 48-hour stoppage yesterday in protest at the “removal of a 10 per cent equal time payment and years of below-inflation pay increases.”
In a separate dispute, 76 workers on Petrofac’s BP installations also downed tools over changes to working patterns, according to the union, which predicted “considerable disruption” across the mega-rich company’s operations.
The firm claimed that there would be “no impact” on production ahead of the industrial action.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Offshore oil and gas companies are making eye-watering profits yet are playing Scrooge when it comes to the workers that create those profits.
“Instead of working to resolve this dispute, management are prolonging it. Their actions are those of a greedy and callous employer hell-bent on making their workers worse off while shareholders bathe in wealth.”
