Offshore oil workers began two days of strike action on Thursday in a dispute over pay and working conditions.
Unite the union said about 146 people will down tools at the Petrofac Repsol installation in the North Sea on Thursday in a dispute relating to issues around payments, below inflationary pay increases, medicals, mileage and stand-in duties.
Unite members at Petrofac’s BP installations also began strike action in a separate dispute centring around the working rotation. The dispute involves 76 members, 98.3% of whom voted in favour of taking action.
