OILC: a history lesson in organising offshore
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This year, the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC) merged into RMT. It is twenty years since the tragedy that prompted the OILC to form.
OILC - organising offshore
OILC: the new union picks up momentum
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Recruitment to the new offshore workers' union is going very well and steadily.
Offshore workers form new union
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"We've only been recruiting since last Friday and so far the response has been very positive indeed. The people offshore know us, I'm very optimistic."
Support the 'splitters'!
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The decision of the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC) to form itself into a new union has brought forth predictable cries of condemnation from predictable sources.
OILC poll results
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Percentage of employees who believe that the workers would be more effectively represented by a single industrial union:
TU Members: 85%
Non Unionists: 81%
Total: 83%
"The future is ours"
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The Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC), which organised the unofficial strikes and rig occupations in the North Sea in 1989 and '90, has decided to form itself into a trade union for offshore
"To do nothing is just not an option"
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Ronnie MacDonald explains how the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee plans to the the newly formed Offshore Workers' Union by focusing on health and safety iisues and the need for workers' unity on t
To break or not to break?
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Elsewhere in this paper we carry reports on the new 'breakaway union' being formed by workers in the offshore oil and gas industry. What does history have to teach us about such breakaways?
A union for offshore workers
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OILC is seeking certification as an independent trade union for offshore oil workers. It is anticipated that the process will take to two years to complete.
Norwegian union pledges support for OILC
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We are informed that the British Offshore Industry Liaison Committee, OILC, will announced its transition from being a rank-and-file organisation to becoming an independent trade union later today [Fr