Posted on 04/07/2023 1:38:19 PM PDT by EBH
More that 1,300 offshore workers are to stage a 48-hour strike in a dispute over pay.
Unite warned that dozens of oil and gas platforms will be brought to a “standstill” by the walkout from April 24.
The union has previously warned of a “tsunami” of industrial unrest in the offshore sector over pay and conditions.
Unite general secretary, Sharon Graham, said: “Oil and gas companies in the offshore sector are enjoying record windfall profits.
“There’s no question that contractors and operators can easily afford to give Unite members a decent pay rise.
“The scale of corporate greed in the offshore sector has to be challenged.
“1,350 offshore workers will now take part in an unprecedented tsunami of industrial action over 48 hours with hundreds more set to join them.
“Unite will support all our members every step of the way in this fight for better jobs, pay and conditions.”
Workers taking industrial action include electrical, production and mechanical technicians in addition to deck crew, scaffolders crane operators, pipefitters, platers and riggers.
John Boland, Unite industrial officer, added: “Unite has received an emphatic mandate in support of strike action.
“It is historic and it will be the biggest offshore stoppage in a generation.
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This combined with the OPEC production cuts should make Summer 2023 very interesting.
Yep...that’s what I was thinking. Granted this is only a 48 hour stoppage, they still need to shut it down and reopen it. So, 48 hours will be more like 96 hours. It is now as easy as it might sound on the surface.
Wait until the same offshore workers stop fixing offshore windmills. Those things have crazy maintenance requirements. Shutting off oil and gas for a bit is ok because you have storage. Electricity cannot be stored at utility scale.
This should result in 1300 new job openings.
;>)
Corporate greed…union greed…worker greed…government greed. Then us private company workers end up paying for all this greed.
For 2 weeks to a month max. I’d hedge under 2 weeks.
It does not sound the US. First the union official is identified as General Secretary. That is a term not used for US labor union officers. Second, I believe that most of the workers in the off-shore oil industry in US waters is non union and fairly well compensated.
Technically, wouldn't this be a swimout?
I only ask one question?
Do you take a paycut if the corp. takes a loss?
Answer is NO!
I’ve always felt that employees should share in the wealth as well as the poverty of whom they work for. It is my time and my life, I’m giving to an enterprise. I should share in its sucesses and it’s failures.
I’m not promoting communism, but capitalism.
If you run your company poorly, I’m out of here.
eg pay your Managers too much, compared to the people that actually produce something.
I like the way they did it in the Book Moby Dick(The whale)
everyone gets a share of the profits, based on the skills they bring in to the enterprise.
My only change would be, that as your skills grow and are proven, you gain a larger share appropriate to your larger contributions to the profit.
I used to hate unions and thought that corporate America should be trusted to run their companies.
That has changed a lot in the last decade.
I don’t think much more of unions, but our CEO class are not running their companies with America’s interests at heart. We need people defending American jobs.
on the bright side, at least my sil who inherited oil wells maybe won’t be getting her fat checks for a while...
I’ve pretty much come around to that way of thinking too.
Globalism must be destroyed! Economic Nationalism Now!
Yes, completely agree w/you!
Pathetic idiots = (IQ of 0–25). And it’s explainable, because idiots do not have and never will have any situational awareness.
Then you should take the risk and open a business, and practice what you’re preaching. Go ahead, you speak like a lifelong employee.
I’m absolutely certain you’re the very first human to ever try this! /s
Really? You think shitcanning 1300 skilled workers because they're dissatisfied with their working conditions and pay is a good thing?
Why not go full bore dementia joe and just shut down all offshore drilling permanently? That would teach those miserable proles a good lesson.
Trump’s fault
Other than military and acadamia, Lifelong union member in most places I worked. I hate unions. Not because they don’t provide a much need service, but because they are as corrupt as the corp monsters they are supposed to protect workers from.
Been a member of UAW, SPEEA, and ILWU.
ILWU are real nut cases.
The only union that I saw back off when the company was having a rough time was SPEEA. But Boeing turned right around and sodomized them at the first chance they got.
My comment was it is supposed to be a two way street.
Mostly it is the worker. You get yourself in a situation Where you are dependent on the employer, instead of yourself.
Y’all say start a business, well I did, I’m an independent contractor. I work for whom I please when I please.
Many people don’t have the skill set to do that.
If more people did have skills then this would all be academic.
And then, mysteriously, they don’t come back.
Which Biden official is coordinating this one?
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