About 170 Petrofac Ltd. workers employed at the platforms owned by Repsol S.A. in the North Sea began a two-day strike on Thursday, the British union Unite said on Thursday, joining others that demand pay raises amid record inflation in the United Kingdom.
"Unite's members are watching offshore oil and gas giants mount up eye-watering profits. Instead of paying the workforce what they deserve because they are the ones ultimately generating these profits Petrofac Repsol are reveling in playing Scrooge," Unite general secretary Sharon Graham stressed.
Around the same time, 76 Petrofac employees at BP's installations separately confirmed strikes between December 29 and 31, affecting multiple energy facilities. Unite Scotland is the biggest trade union in the country with about 150,000 members.
