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The British oil service company SLB UK is using unorganized people to perform the work that striking Industri Energi members were supposed to do on the NCS, thus the strike loses its effect.

We have come out on strike because the employers failed to come up with an offer that would give our members more money in their pockets.

The union of the port workers in Esbjerg supports the strike against the British oil service company SLB UK in solidarity. - It is necessary to stand together in solidarity, across national borders, when wages and working conditions are threatened, says Jakob Lykke, trade union leader in 3F in Esbjerg.

The strike in SLB UK has started and Industri Energi is receiving a stream of statements of support for the striking members, both from land and continental shelf, both from Norway and internationally.

Industri Energi is experiencing full support for a strike against SLB UK from other offshore unions around the North Sea basin.

The oil service company Schlumberger Oilfield UK (Part of SLB UK) are threatening to fire people if they strike. -This is totally unacceptable behavior from a company operating on the Norwegian continental shelf, Ommund Stokka deputy leader of Indusrti Energi, says.

The mediation between Industri Energi and the oil service company SLB UK (former Schlumberger UK) was concluded without reaching an agreement. «We are now peparing for strike from midnight 30th of March» says deputy leader in Industri Energi Ommund Stokka.