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Major Strike at Europe Largest Oil Refinery Ends

Major Strike at Europe Largest Oil Refinery Ends
Major Strike at Europe Largest Oil Refinery Ends

Trade unions have agreed to end a week-long strike at Europe’s largest oil refinery — Shell’s 404,000 barrel per day Pernis refinery in the Netherlands — after the parties resolved a dispute over wages that had seen the refinery operating at reduced rates since early April.
Trade unions will advise workers to end the strike, The National Federation of Christian Trade Unions in the Netherlands (CNV) spokesman Piet Verburg said Friday.
Shell has offered improved terms in the collective labor agreement and a wage rise of 3% this year, 2% next year, and 2.5% in 2021, Oil Price reported.
“Shell has offered an ultimate proposal for the Collective Labor Agreement for Pernis and Moerdijk to the unions,” the spokesman said.
Unions had initially wanted a 5% wages increase, while Shell was offering a 2% raise this year and another 2.5% salary increase next year.
Oil products output at the refinery has been reduced after workers started the strike on April 8.

 

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