Total’s North Sea Oilfield Workers Hold Strike Ballot

Britain’s biggest labor union is balloting rig workers at three of Total’s (NYSE: TOT) North Sea oil platforms over a potential strike due to the company’s refusal to reduce the number of unpaid working days, the union said on June 20.

After the oil price crash in 2014, the workers agreed to work an extra 14 days unpaid to help the company during the downturn, Wullie Wallace, regional officer of Unite the Union said.