Norway oil service workers agree wage deal, averting strike (updated)

Weatherford International

19/06/2024 05:23

(Updates with mediator, detail in paragraphs 2-6)
       OSLO, June 19 (Reuters) - Offshore oil service workers
in Norway struck a deal with employers during state-sponsored
mediation to avoid going on strike in Western Europe's largest
oil and gas producing nation, the IE&FLT and Safe labour unions
said on Wednesday.
    The government-appointed mediator separately confirmed that
a deal had been reached.
        The two unions initially planned to withdraw nearly 140
workers employed at SLB  SLB.N , Halliburton  HAL.N , Baker
Hughes  BKR.O , Oceaneering  OII.N  and Weatherford  WFRD.O . 
  
        Overall, the wages talks covered over 6,000 members of
IE&FLT and about 1,200 members of Safe.
  
        While any strike action would not have hit production in
the initial phase, a longer-term conflict could have impacted
output.
  
        The Norwegian oil and gas companies that operate
offshore fields, including state-controlled Equinor  EQNR.OL , 
    agreed
     a wage deal with their workers earlier this month,
preventing strike action.
  

 (Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis, editing by Terje Solsvik)
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