Strikes Underway At BP And Repsol North Sea Platforms

Unite, the UK’s largest industrial union, has knowledgeable that over 240 Petrofac employees posted on Repsol and BP offshore installations can be occurring strike over two separate disputes.

Unite mentioned that round 170 members working for Petrofac are taking 48-hour strike motion on Repsol installations offshore from right now, December 22.

The motion follows employees rejecting the most recent pay supply from the corporate by 79 % on an 89 % turnout in an more and more bitter dispute over pay and dealing phrases, which has seen earlier rounds of commercial motion. 

The installations impacted embody the Arbroath, Auk, Bleo Holm, Claymore, Clyde, Fulmar Alpha, Piper Bravo, Saltire, Tartan Alpha in addition to the Flotta oil terminal.

Unite additionally confirmed {that a} additional 48-hour strike will influence the Montrose platform beginning on December 29 – 31.

The dispute facilities on the elimination of a ten % Equal Time cost, years of under inflationary pay will increase in addition to points round funds for Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) medicals, mileage, and stand-in duties.

“Petrofac Repsol employees throughout the assorted installations are taking this newest motion resulting from a sequence of unacceptable pay provides. Unite’s members are watching offshore oil and fuel giants mount up eye-watering income. As a substitute of paying the workforce what they deserve as a result of they’re those finally producing these income Petrofac Repsol are reveling in enjoying Scrooge. Unite helps and can proceed to help our members at Petrofac for so long as it takes for them to realize a profitable decision,” Unite normal secretary Sharon Graham mentioned.

In a separate dispute, Unite members at Petrofac’s BP installations: Andrew, Clair, Clair Ridge, ETAP, and the Glen Lyon FPSO may even start 48-hour strike motion on December 29 – 31.

The Petrofac BP dispute facilities on the working rotation, which is at the moment a piece 3 on/3 off rotation. This motion includes 76 members.

Unite anticipates that the strike motion by Petrofac employees at each Repsol and BP services are prone to trigger appreciable disruption and the commerce union has warned that additional motion is being actively thought-about which might lengthen the dispute into 2023.

“Unite’s members have been left with no selection however to take additional strike motion as a result of indifference and intransigence proven by Petrofac administration. A number of rounds of 48-hour strike motion will now happen following our members rejecting the most recent pay supply which represents actual phrases pay lower.”

“The Petrofac employees are completely decided to proceed with strike motion as a result of the corporate can simply afford to settle this dispute. We might encourage them as soon as once more to take action and permit these employees to get again on with the job,” Unite industrial officer John Boland, on behalf of the Petrofac workforce throughout the assorted installations, concluded.

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