The aim is to secure the future with, well paid, quality, sustainable employment for workers impacted by the transition away from oil and gas industries to renewables.
These demands, created by offshore workers, provide a pathway to a more sustainable and fair energy industry.
They are a plan for an energy industry that meets the needs of the workforce, the public and the environment.
Solutions for the immediate barriers workers face to moving into renewable industries:
Demand 1 - Workers at the centre of transition planning
Demand 2 - Clear, accessible pathways out of high carbon jobs
Demand 3 - A training regime built to keep workers safe instead of for profit
Demand 4 - Invest in domestic manufacturing and assembly for renewables
Solutions to ensure work in renewables is secure, well-paid and safe:
Demand 5 - Collective bargaining with strong rank and file unions across the whole offshore industry
Demand 6 - Establish universal rights and a wage floor across the UKCS
Demand 7 - effective and trusted whistleblowing procedures
Solutions for a new energy system, where benefits are shared fairly and there is greater public control.
Demand 8 - Public ownership for the public good
Demand 9 - Reorganise the tax system for public good
Demand 10 - No community left behind
RMT are the signatories to the long established Offshore Diving Industry Agreement (the latest agreement is available to download from our agreements page). A couple of years ago we were approached by a number of Inshore Divers who felt it was time for them to have a say about their working conditions. The Inshore Divers as a group of workers, don't have any minimum standards on pay and conditions, no collective bargaining rights, and as a group they are not organised ........... yet!
We kicked the organising process off a couple of years ago and we had a good team of volunteers involved with the newly established Inshore Divers Organising Group, (DOG). However, workloads for everyone concerned, and a significant upturn in activity across the Inshore Diving sector, has meant that organising activity has unfortunately tailed-off. It hasn't gone away though! RMT remains committed to the establishment of an Inshore Diving Industry Agreement (IDIA) and we are preparing a second push on this work. If you are an Inshore Diver, and you want to get involved, please do get in touch.
We are fighting for standards across the offshore energy sector including:
