Workers organized under UNITE and RMT on Shell’s North Sea platforms are staging a 48-hour strike set to start on Thursday, August 4th at 6:30 AM following their 24-hour strike this past week. Workers have been in contentious talks with Wood Group, their employer, for months regarding the drastic pay cuts that over a third of the workforce has experienced and the new scheduling procedures that keep employees away from their families for longer and that ask workers to do more for less. Wood Group claims that they have done their best to negotiate with the unions’ bargaining units and that in order to retain jobs they were forced to make pay cuts as the oil industry has been suffering significantly over the past year. However, workers feel that their employer has not shown a willingness to negotiate and remain steadfast in their demands.
See "Unions announce 48-hour strike in Wood Group dispute", Scotland business, BBC, July 29, 2016