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By Stuart Condie
SYDNEY–Workers at three Woodside Energy-operated offshore liquefied natural gas platforms will decide Thursday whether to call off the threat of a strike that could have disrupted global gas supplies.
Woodside and union representatives on Wednesday reached an in-principle agreement on a number of issues, the company and union both said. Members will now decide whether to endorse the deal and to withdraw its notice of industrial action, the Offshore Alliance workers’ group said.
Workers had threatened to strike over issues including pay if they were not satisfied with the outcome of Wednesday’s meeting between company and union officials. Worries over disruptions at one of the world’s major LNG exporters had jolted natural-gas prices.
“If members endorse the outcome, it will leave Chevron as the sole operator in the Western Australia gasfields without an enterprise agreement with its workforce,” said Offshore Alliance, a partnership between two local unions.
Staff at Chevron’s Gorgon LNG facility and downstream facilities are set to return ballots on potential strike action on Thursday, said Offshore Alliance. A similar vote at Chevron’s Wheatstone platform is due on Monday, it said.
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