North Sea Divers End Strike
16th Nov 2006, 22:51 GMT
Filed under: Organizations, Atlantic Earlier this month, we told you that North Sea oil workers struck due to disagreements over pay and benefits. After 10 days out of work, it seems striking National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers voted to accept their employer's offer of a 44.7% pay raise, spread over two years. Upon accepting the offer, the 900+ divers and support staff broke the strike and returned to work immediately. Although the divers had demanded a 50% salary increase this year -- claiming their job, working on wells and pipelines at depths of several hundred feet, was the most dangerous work in the North Sea -- it seems 84% of voting strikers decided 44.7% sounded enough like 50% to pull on their diving helmets. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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