Offshore Diving Industry Agreement

Company Signatories' Website

Purpose

ODIA came into existence during the early 1980s, initially for the purpose of negotiating the 3-yearly pay and conditions settlement.

Its value in preserving the earning potential of the workforce and providing a stable reference for all its stakeholders is acknowledged by both the RMT and the signatory companies.

However, as the industry has matured and become more global, arrangements to source, engage, deploy and manage offshore personnel have become more varied and internationalised. At the same time, the benefits of building continuous constructive industrial relations on an ongoing basis (as opposed to meeting once every 3 years) have become more evident.

This means that the usual methods of conducting meaningful collective industrial relations have had to become more flexible, in terms of both the stakeholders involved, and the frequency, terms of reference and logistics of joint discussions.

The Company Signatories still have, as our main purpose, the agreement of a 3-yearly pay and benefits' settlement with RMT for North Sea diving personnel, but we also have a role to play within the network of stakeholders with an interest in ongoing industrial relations.