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.

OILC
Full nameOffshore Industry Liaison Committee
CountryUnited Kingdom
Websitewww.oilc.org

The OILC is now a branch of the RMT the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers having agreed to merge from April 2008.[1]

References

  1. RMT Press Release April 2008 Archived 2010-08-30 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 18 April 2010
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