Commodities | Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:10pm BST
* 24-hour strike on seven Shell platforms set for July 26
* To be followed by three-hour strikes in coming weeks
* Maintenance workers strike may not impact production
* Shell making contingency plans to ensure safety – source
By Karolin Schaps
LONDON, July 18 A 24-hour strike of Wood Group oil and gas maintenance workers will “severely disrupt” operations at several Royal Dutch Shell platforms in the North Sea where they are employed, labour union Unite said on Monday.
The strike action scheduled for July 26 will be the first walkout by UK North Sea workers in ten years as oil and gas staff are angered by pay cuts and tougher working schedules brought on by cost savings amid the oil price crash.
The workers will also undertake several three-hour strikes over the following weeks, a union representative said.
At total of seven Shell platforms, including the historic Brent facility, will be affected by the strike of Wood Group employees who carry out maintenance. This means production from the platforms may not necessarily be impacted.
Shell is making contingency arrangements to ensure safety is not affected by the strike action, a person at the company said.
“It is anticipated that the action will severely disrupt operations on the Shell platforms,” the union said in a statement.
The platforms affected are Brent Alpha, Bravo and Charlie, Gannet, Nelson, Curlew and Shearwater. Shell’s Brent Delta platform, which is being decommissioned, is also included.
An overwhelming number of employees backed strike action in a ballot carried out last week.
Wood Group said it was continuing to engage with employees and labour unions to reach a resolution.
Shell said it hoped Wood Group and its employees would come to an agreement. (Editing by David Clarke and Mark Potter)
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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Salute North Sea workers and support fully their strike against the repressive Shell management’s discrimination in deciding the job cut target and distribution of severance pay benefit. Teach these leaders a lesson.