Strikes Hit Two Australian LNG Facilities After Wage Talks Collapse

Maintenance workers at two offshore LNG facilities in Australia went on strike after failing to reach an agreement on wage terms with their employer, engineering major UGL. “The end result of UGL's inability to negotiate or accept industrial standards is protected industrial action,” trade union group the Offshore Alliance, which represents the workers, said in a statement as quoted by Reuters. The strike will affect Woodside’s North West Shelf LNG facility as well as the neighboring Pluto LNG project, also operated by the Australian…