OFFSHORE workers gave massive support to unions yesterday in their consultation over strike action over attacks on working conditions by North Sea oil bosses.

The GMB union said its offshore members had voted “overwhelmingly” to move to a strike ballot, while Unite announced that 93.5 per cent had voted in favour.

Workers are furious over attacks on pay and imposed changes to shift patterns from two weeks on, two weeks off to three weeks on, three weeks off — as well as an estimated 10,000 offshore job losses since the oil price slump.