{"id":4703,"date":"2023-04-08T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2023-04-08T15:36:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T15:36:57","slug":"offshore-oil-workers-to-stage-biggest-strike-in-a-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/4703\/","title":{"rendered":"Offshore Oil Workers To Stage Biggest Strike In A Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>More that 1,300 offshore workers are to stage a 48-hour strike in a dispute over pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unite warned that dozens of oil and gas platforms will be brought to a \u201cstandstill\u201d by the walkout from April 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no question that contractors and\u00a0operators\u00a0can easily afford to give Unite members a decent pay rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bosses Want Workers Back in the Office So they Can Monitor Them, Survey Finds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe scale of corporate greed in the\u00a0offshore sector\u00a0has to be challenged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c1,350 offshore workers will now take part in an unprecedented tsunami of industrial action over 48 hours with hundreds more set to join them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnite will support all our members every step of the way in this fight for better jobs, pay and conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Workers taking industrial action include electrical, production and mechanical technicians in addition to deck crew, scaffolders crane operators, pipefitters, platers and riggers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Boland, Unite\u00a0industrial\u00a0officer, added: \u201cUnite has received an emphatic mandate in support of strike action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is historic and it will be the biggest offshore stoppage in a generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnite\u2019s members are determined to get their fair share and to establish a better working environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is not exclusively about pay but also working rotas, holidays, and offshore safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe workforce has been taken for granted for years but now their value will be acutely felt when strike action will bring dozens of platforms to a standstill.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2023-04-08T15:36:57+00:00\"> 8 April 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More that 1,300 offshore workers are to stage a 48-hour strike in a dispute over pay. Unite warned that dozens of oil and gas platforms will be brought to a \u201cstandstill\u201d by the walkout from April 24. \u201cThere\u2019s no question that contractors and\u00a0operators\u00a0can easily afford to give Unite members a decent pay rise. Bosses Want [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,36,19,16],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}