Fear of strikes in the natural gas market continues: Workers authorized the union
In Australia, the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), supplies to one of Chevron’s LNG plants could be disrupted after workers voted to allow the union to call a strike.
The Gorgon and Wheatstone facilities in Western Australia, along with Woodside Energy Group’s LNG facilities in the same region, account for approximately one tenth of global LNG supply.
THEY HAVE AUTHORIZED THE UNION.
According to the results of the vote seen by Reuters, around 37 workers at the Wheatstone offshore platform voted to call a strike, joining workers at another Wheatstone unit and at the Gorgon plant.
The Offshore Alliance, which brings together the Australian Maritime Union and the Australian Workers Union, will have the power to decide on strikes that can range from half an hour to 12 hours of layoffs.
If unions decide to strike, they must notify Chevron seven business days in advance.
The strikes are spreading
More than 99 percent of the nearly 450 workers at Chevron’s Gorgon LNG plant and additional Wheatstone processing plant voted last week to allow unions to call strikes when necessary.
Woodside Energy, the world’s largest LNG exporter and Australia’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, reached an agreement in principle on August 24 with unions representing offshore workers at the North facility. West Shelf. (Reuters)
Source: Sozcu
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