Energy - Divers win large rise
WORKERS, NOV 2006 ISSUE
North Sea divers have won a large pay offer after voting 640 to 2 to reject a 15 per cent offer spread over three years. Strike action by more than 800 divers and support crews was planned to take place from 1 November.
As a result of this unity, the RMT has been able to negotiate a significantly improved pay offer which now represents a 37 per cent increase over three years, with 20 per cent effective from 1 November. The previous offer had failed to address two decades of pay erosion. As Workers went to press, the improved offer was due to be recommended to the members – who must be wondering why they allowed two decades of erosion in the first place.