Offshore Industry Liaison Committee
The Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC) was a trade union set up in the United Kingdom in response to the deaths of 167 workers on the Piper Alpha platform on 6 July 1988. Their deaths would be followed by the death of another worker on the Ocean Odyssey oil rig on 22 September 1988.
Offshore Industry Liaison Committee | |
Merged into | RMT |
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Founded | 1988 |
Dissolved | 2008 |
Location | |
Website | www.oilc.org |
The OILC is now a branch of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), having agreed to merge from April 2008.[1]
References
- RMT Press Release April 2008 Archived 2010-08-30 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 18 April 2010
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