Norway oil drilling companies, unions agree wage deal, averting strike action

Archer

29/06/2022 01:12

OSLO, June 29 (Reuters) - Three Norwegian labour unions
agreed on a wage deal with the owners of floating offshore oil
drilling rigs, preventing the outbreak of a strike that would
have disrupted exploration, unions and employers said on
Wednesday.
    The deal between the Norwegian Shipowners' Association and
the Industri Energi, Safe and DSO labour unions covers 8,250
workers.
    Unions had said that 1,600 workers on 12 rigs would go on
strike initially if the talks failed, but would not disrupt the
current production of oil and gas.
    A strike could also have escalated within days, however,
thus potentially also impacting output at a later time.
    Safe, Industri Energi and DSO negotiated on behalf of
workers on mobile offshore units as well as platform drilling
crews on permanent installations.

 (Reporting by Terje Solsvik, editing by Gwladys Fouche)
 ((terje.solsvik@thomsonreuters.com; +47 918 666 70))