Not that I know anything about the offshore industry, but I've already read several complaints about safety on this forum. Seems like there should be an international union of offshore helicopter pilots. A worldwide strike would cripple the greedy oil companies, therefore they would be forced to give into safety demands. In 2005 alone, exxonmobil made $36 billion in profit, chevron $27 billion, shell $23 billion and bp $19 billion. Even with record profits two years in a row they couldn't spend 250k pound to fund safety advances? Thats bull
! I've read that some individual companies have unions, but it seems to me that they need to unite on a larger scale to really have the affect that is needed.