Unite to ballot Mariner workforce on new pay offer

Trade union Unite has announced that it will ballot its members on a ‘revised’ pay offer on Equinor’s Mariner platform.

The union confirmed today that a new offer had been tabled by oil field service firm Aker Solutions and that its membership had agreed to remove an overtime ban as a gesture of “good will”.

Unite also said the new offer from Aker Solutions “addresses a number of key concerns” raised in the successful ballot for industrial action including training, turnable beds nightly allowance, standby and bonus payments.

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