工会表示，在与德克萨斯石油公司阿帕奇（Apache）的薪资谈判破裂后，员工别无选择，只能采取工业行动。
联合工会（Unite）称，北海石油工人即将发起的罢工可能“严重扰乱”英国的燃料供应，并补充说，在与阿帕奇公司的薪资谈判破裂后，员工已别无选择。
Union says staff left with no choice but industrial action after breakdown in pay talks with Texas oil firm Apache A looming strike by oil workers in the North Sea could “severely disrupt” UK fuel supplies, the Unite union has said, adding that staff were left with no choice after a breakdown in pay talks with the Texas oil company Apache.
该工会表示，阿帕奇公司的员工“强烈”支持罢工行动，因为公司提出的薪资方案被工会认为不可接受，对许多员工而言实际上意味着降薪，而该公司当时却“赚取了令人咋舌的巨额利润”。
The union said Apache workers had “emphatically” backed strike action after being given what it said was an unacceptable pay offer that amounted to a real-terms pay cut for many employees, at a time when the company was “raking in eye-watering profits”.