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Oil workers employed by Wood Group at Shell’s North Sea Brent oilfield platforms have poured out support for strike action against their employer in the face of dramatic wage cuts coupled with unreasonably long and demanding shifts. Unite regional manager John Boland has emphasized that the 99% pro-strike vote by 200 oil workers demonstrates an overwhelming fervor regarding changing terms and conditions of employment and that Wood Group would be wise to listen to the grievances of their employees given that they have remained loyal to the company through a tumultuous time in the oil industry. Meanwhile, Wood Group representatives have alleged that they have had many meetings with union officials in attempts to appease workers and claim that the crippled state of the oil industry does not enable them to inflate employees’ salaries and give them better benefits, characterizing its drastic cuts as necessary to the preservation of jobs.