The author of a new book on the Grangemouth refinery says it’s wrong that such an important national asset is in the hands of just one billionaire. In The Battle of Grangemouth, former…Read more…
BP/Ineos talks spark jobs fears
Fears over hundreds of jobs and pensions were stoked last night (March 16), as it unexpectedly emerged that oil giant BP has been in talks with the petrochemicals firm Ineos – a company with a…Read more…
Stop the decline spiral
In the wake of the sharpest and most sustained drop in the price of oil in decades, the UK oil industry is staring into an abyss as more than a hundred thousand jobs have gone in the last two years…Read more…
Public oil investment call
Scotland’s biggest offshore union is calling on MSPs to back a Holyrood motion calling for public investment in the oil and gas industry. Unite is to ask every MSP to support a motion by North…Read more…
‘Out of the blue’ job losses
The threat to 600 manufacturing jobs at OneSubsea, the Leeds oil and gas engineering firm, reinforces the need for a strong industrial strategy to protect such skilled jobs, Unite said yesterday…Read more…
Protect North Sea jobs
Scotland’s biggest union has called for urgent government action to protect jobs in the North Sea. Unite the union was commenting after a new report from the industry body Oil & Gas UK…Read more…
Oil strike suspended
The following announcement was issued last night (August 12) jointly by Wood Group and the Unite and RMT Trade Unions in relation to the current dispute involving workers on the Shell facilities in…Read more…
Treat workers fairly
Labour’s shadow Scottish Secretary is to meet with shop stewards from the oil and gas industry, in the middle of the biggest North Sea dispute for a generation. Blaydon MP Dave Anderson will…Read more…
Cuts off the table call
Unite has called for urgent talks with energy company Wood Group in order to avert further strike action in the North Sea. Yesterday, (August 8), the union confirmed dates for further strike…Read more…
Oil strike – latest
Oil workers at Wood Group, members of Unite and RMT, took their first day of strike action as part of the latest 48-hour stoppage today (August 4) in an ongoing dispute over a massive cut in pay and…Read more…
Oil strike rages on
A 48-hour strike by North Sea offshore oil and gas workers started today (August 4), after company managers rejected an offer from trade unions. Workers in the trade unions Unite and RMT will…Read more…
Standing firm
Wood Group oil workers, around 400 members of Unite and the RMT, staged a solid strike on Tuesday (July 26) in what was the first North Sea strike in three decades. The 24-hour stoppage was in…Read more…
Blatant exploitation
Workers at the Fawley oil refinery will stage a second 24-hour strike tomorrow (July 27) in the dispute that sees foreign workers being paid half that of UK workers at the Southampton site. …Read more…
Solid oil strike
Messages of support for striking workers on Shell platforms across the North Sea were flooding in from around the globe today (July 26), as they took part in a 24-hour stoppage in a dispute over…Read more…
Pushed to the limit
North Sea oil and gas workers are to strike for the first time in a generation. Almost 400 members of Unite and RMT unions who work for multinational oil and gas services company, Wood Group across…Read more…
‘Woefully inadequate’
Unite warned that the government’s Oil and Gas Workforce Plan, published today (July 6) was ‘woefully inadequate’ and fell short of arresting a decline in the industry which had led to over 120,000…Read more…
Power station must be built
The UK faces the very real threat of power shortages in the coming years – and that’s why following through with plans to build the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is critical if Britain is to…Read more…
Swingeing pay cuts
Unite will ballot more than 200 North Sea oil rig workers for strike action in a dispute with the Wood Group over a swingeing 30 per cent pay cut. The ballot, in conjunction with the GMB and…Read more…
Worried and frustrated
Strike action on North Sea oil platforms moved a step closer today as talks over pay, proposed cuts and changes to working conditions by the Wood Group broke down. Wood Group is proposing pay…Read more…
Stop North Sea race to the bottom
The North Sea oil workforce suffered another blow this week (May 25) after Shell announced it would cut 475 jobs in the UK and Ireland. The latest announcement is part of a wider raft of Shell…Read more…