Norway Oil, Gas Workers Widen Drilling Rig Strike

From Reuters:

Some 900 Norwegian offshore crude oil too gas workers went on strike on Monday, joining almost 700 who walked off the project final week, inwards an escalating dispute over pay too pensions that has hitting production.

The Safe wedlock said it would reckon inwards the adjacent few days whether to widen the strike to all its 2,250 members.

Safe went ahead amongst its excogitation to expand the strike that began final Tuesday later employers did non reply to its demands for higher reward too pension benefits past times a midnight (2200 GMT) Lord's Day deadline.

It is the biggest strike inwards the sector since a 16-day industrial activeness inwards 2012 cutting Norway’s output of unsmooth past times near thirteen per centum too its natural gas production past times near four percent.

Reidun Ravndal, a fellow member of Safe's strike committee, said 900 additional workers were joining the strike on Monday, although it would receive got unopen to fourth dimension for the strike to boot the bucket fully effective because they receive got to follow rubber shutdown procedures....MUCH MORE