Workers at a terminal loading Brent in the UK North Sea, a component of the Brent Crude international benchmark, have overwhelmingly voted for a strike in the middle of May if a pay dispute with the local council is not resolved by then—an industrial action that could stop loadings of the Brent grade. The tug and towage workers at the Sullom Voe Terminal voted this month to go on a strike in the middle of May if their employer, the Shetland Islands Council, does not recognize that the workers are entitled to a long-service award equivalent to a month’s salary like any other council worker, the trade union Unite Scotland said, Shetland News reports . As much as 87 percent of the unionized tug and towage workers voted to approve a strike action if their demands are not met. “Our members in the Shetland Islands Council towage service just […]