The deadline for mediation in shelf settlement expires Friday night. If the parties can not agree and there are strikes, struck six percent of oil and gas production on the Norwegian shelf.
Industri Energi, SAFE and leaders mediator all with Norwegian oil and gas in offshore settlement. The arbitration began Thursday with the deadline at midnight on Saturday.
Want costs down
– We believe the industry must adapt to a permanent, lower costs and improve our competitiveness in order to preserve many as possible jobs, write negotiator January Hodneland in Norwegian oil Industry Association said in a statement.
SAFE has announced that SAFE members go on strike if the mediation is not successful.
– We naturally want that mediation will succeed. But if Norwegian Oil Industry Association maintains its massive assault on the collective agreement ours, and it will strike, we have four days’ notice before we can expand the strike to several companies and installations, said first deputy and tariff responsible SAFE, Roy Aleksandersen.
Statoil employees
From Industry Energy’s side will primarily 525 members who work in the group be taken out on strike in the first place. Otherwise, also leaders withdraw 75 members on strike if the mediation is not successful.
The strike will affect the Balder, Ringhorne, Jotun, Gjøa and Vega.
Facing Industry Energy website describes union leader Leif Sande, who heads negotiations for Industry Energy, as follows:
– Our main disagreement yesterday that the employer will not abide by the front subject limit of 2.4 per cent wage increase.
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