Workers remember Piper Alpha
Crowds gather in Aberdeen's Hazlehead Park, where a service takes place to remember the 167 men who lost their lives in the Piper Alpha disaster, July 6, 2018
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THE fight to honour the legacy of the victims of 1988’s Piper Alpha oil-rig disaster continues, RMT union general secretary Mick Lynch said on Saturday.
“Piper Alpha shows the dangers of poorly regulated profit-driven operators,” said Mr Lynch on the 36th anniversary of an explosion that turned the world’s the biggest single oil-producer into the site of the industry’s largest loss of life.
“As we mark this anniversary, RMT calls for a review of the offshore safety regime’s effectiveness.
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