Unions 'back at table' over strike

Costly: strike off Norway

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 04 July 2012 08:53 GMT

Norway labour union Industri Energi said it did not expect easy talks with employers, as state meditation over an oil strike was to resume later on Wednesday.

"These negotiations will probably be uphill," Leif Sande, the leader of the union, which represents more than half of 7000 offshore workers on the Norwegian continental shelf, told Reuters.

"I am expecting that the employers will hold strong on their demands when we go into mediation later today," he added.

The Norwegian oil industry association (OLF) and the trade unions are meeting at the state mediator's office on Wednesday afternoon to try to put an end to the costly strike, now in its 11th day.

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