Sea Deaths
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-09-24Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 14 →
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IN THE past week three more men have lost their lives in the North Sea. Two were welders whose basket broke and flung them into the treacherous waters.
The safety record on the rigs in the North Sea is notoriously bad. and union organisation is non-existent.
Prompted by the Bristow helicopter disasters, Moray Trades Council has adopted a resolution calling on the Scottish TUC to set up a trade union enquiry 1o LIC 523 DE:: auri sixt Tra 1:a* reacts be nothing more inan whitewash.
The sums of money involved in North Sea oil are so huge, the companies, BP, Mobil, Total, etc., so powerful, equipped with such slick public relations set-ups, that any public inquiry involving them would finally be a farce - even if the Labour movement could use it as a platform.
The resolution was passed on August 17. It remains to be seen if the STUC will act - : s they have signally failed 1 › since the oil 'boom' start d over a decade ago.