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Rig workers who whistleblow over safety issues are 'routinely sacked'

PIPER ALPHA: Twenty years after the Piper Alpha disaster, unions warn of �culture of fear� over safety on North Sea oil platforms, reports Home Affairs Editor John Bynorth

NORTH Sea oil workers who whistleblow about safety issues are routinely sacked, creating a "culture of fear" 20 years after the Piper Alpha disaster, one of Scotland's leading trade unionists has claimed.