Offshore: 1,650 workers to strike in sector’s biggest walkout – following Shell and BP’s £11.7bn profits

Around 1,650 North Sea offshore contractors will begin two new rounds of 48-hour strike action in what a trade union said is the biggest walkout in the sector so far. The workers are striking in an increasingly bitter dispute over jobs, pay and conditions in the offshore sector, Unite said. The union says BP and Shell recorded [...]