Offshore Industry Liaison Committee
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The Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC) was a trade union set up in the United Kingdom in response to the deaths of 167 workers on the Piper Alpha platform on 6 July 1988.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The death of another worker on the Ocean Odyssey oil rig on 22 September 1988 and other accidents also played a part in spurring its foundation.<ref name="Allister"/> The union, still in the form of an unofficial committee drawn from different North Sea rigs, organized large strikes in the summers of 1989 and 1990.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
The OILC is now a branch of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), having agreed to merge from April 2008.<ref name="RMT Merger">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>