the Diocesan Museum of Padua will host the exhibition Il Canova mai visto (Canova Never Seen)
The beating heart of the exhibition is the Vaso cinerario della contessa Lodovica von Callenberg( Cinerary Vase of Countess Lodovica von Callenberg)
a work by Antonio Canova that is on public display for the first time
part of the heritage of the Church of Padua
was originally placed in the outdoor garden of the Church of the Eremitani
Made by Antonio Canova between 1803 and 1807
it was considered destroyed due to the bombing in March 1944 and was later found in the parish premises thanks to a search of the inventory of ecclesiastical cultural property
The Cinerary Vase was part of a funerary monument designed and built by architects Domenico Fadiga and Giannantonio Selva and consisted of a cippus supporting the sculptural work of Antonio Canova
on which stood an inscription by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
there was a stele with an epigraph written by Abbot Stefano Antonio Morcelli and seven candelabras
each with inscriptions dedicated to famous people
The Church of the Eremitani had also housed another work by Antonio Canova until 1896: the Funeral Stele of Prince William of Orange Nassau made between 1806 and 1808
of which a bronze copy still stands today.In addition
an upcoming exhibition will present the connections between Padua and Antonio Canova
including prominent figures from the European aristocracy
These include Swiss painter Angelica Kaufmann
author of a portrait of Canova preserved in a private collection in Padua
It will also be an opportunity to delve into the figure of German noblewoman Lodovica von Callenberg and her relationships with European intellectuals and artists
and with the Italian and European aristocracy
including senator and prince Abbondio Rezzonico
A number of Canova plaster casts from the Possagno Gipsoteca will also be on display within the Il Canova mai visto exhibition
The exhibition will also include portraits of the protagonists involved in the creation of the work
unpublished views of the city of Padua showing the original location of the funeral monument
and a collection of period volumes that helped to pass on its fame
A special section will be devoted to documents
letters and writings of Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori Canova
which testify to the prelate’s connection with his beloved seminary
Among the bequests that the prelate arranged
one tells of Sartori Canova’s numismatic passion: the collection of as many as 3,600 coins of ancient Rome
I would say almost passionate care.” To be precise
the inventory mentions “3,593 pieces in silver and first and second bronze [...] and some Consular cotrons of No
163 families [...] and those of the high Latin empire of 98 heads.” All these objects will be on public display for the first time and
will be part of a research project of the University of Padua
From the Antiquarian Library of the Episcopal Seminary of Padua
a group of engravings from the bequest of Marquis Federico Manfredini and numerous texts
including the latest volume of the History of Sculpture
Dal suo risorgimento all’epoca di Canova
who considered Antonio Canova the highest expression of sculpture
Monsignor,” wrote Giovanni Battista Sartori Canova to the then Bishop of Padua Modesto Farina
“not only to give a sign of grateful remembrance to the place in which I had my literary and ecclesiastical education and was assumed to the priesthood
but also well to supply a need of this institute too in truth poorly provided for the instruction of the young in the science of numismatics.”
“The exhibition,” comments one of the curators and director of the Diocesan Museum
“is an interesting opportunity to discover some previously unpublished evidence about Antonio Canova - novello Fidia as his contemporaries called him - but also to grasp the close ties with the city and with some of the most illustrious personalities of the time
It will also be interesting to better delineate the figure of Lodovica von Callenberg
whose profile is being studied by some researchers
who is known to have been an esteemed musician as well as a noblewoman whose friendships included those with Goethe and Angelika Kauffmann
This initiative is part of the cultural project of the Diocesan Museum marked for more than two decades by an activity of knowledge
recovery and enhancement of the cultural heritage of the area
conducted in close synergy with research and preservation bodies and institutes.”
Wilhelmsen Maritime Services (WMS) has agreed to sell its subsidiary Callenberg Technology to Trident Maritime Systems for a net price of around $64m
The sale will be financed with $41m in cash and a seller-financing package of $23m
which will incur a $12m loss on WMS’s net profit
“We have in Trident and their principal
Having a new owner that operates within the same technology areas creates a perfect environment for employees
customers and future growth of Callenberg with Trident,” Dag Schjerven
said the “natural” combination would expand his company’s technical capabilities and geographic reach
“Combining the rich history and strong reputation of Callenberg and Trident
will create a market leader in the provision of marine systems to the global market,” he added
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Imaging across both the full transverse spatial and temporal dimensions of a scene with high precision in all three coordinates is key to applications ranging from LIDAR to fluorescence lifetime imaging
spatial resolution at the expense of temporal resolution are often required
in particular when the full 3-dimensional data cube is required in short acquisition times
We introduce a sensor fusion approach that combines data having low-spatial resolution but high temporal precision gathered with a single-photon-avalanche-diode (SPAD) array with data that has high spatial but no temporal resolution
such as that acquired with a standard CMOS camera
based on blurring the image on the SPAD array and computational sensor fusion
reconstructs time-resolved images at significantly higher spatial resolution than the SPAD input
upsampling numerical data by a factor \(12 \times 12\)
and demonstrating up to \(4 \times 4\) upsampling of experimental data
We demonstrate the technique for both LIDAR applications and FLIM of fluorescent cancer cells
This technique paves the way to high spatial resolution SPAD imaging or
FLIM imaging with conventional microscopes at frame rates accelerated by more than an order of magnitude
To-date streak cameras provide the optimum temporal resolution with commercially available systems claiming resolutions of \(\sim \)100 fs
but are also the most expensive of the available technologies
limited by various restrictions on the type of measured data
A cheap alternative is the use of photonic mixer devices (PMD)14
which are based on intensity modulated illumination and a special sensor pixel design that allows measuring the phase shift between outgoing and incoming illumination
They are generally used as ToF sensors for depth imaging and provide high spatial
(a) Schematic sketch of the imaging set-up for the LIDAR experiment: The scene is uniformly illuminated by pulsed laser from the same direction as the camera setup
Light is collected and then imaged onto both the high-resolution CCD array and the low-resolution SPAD array by the same objective lens
The SPAD sensor is placed slightly out of the focal plane to ensure the temporal information from each point within the scene spreads across multiple pixels
(b) Effect of the optical blur: With the low fill-factor sensor in focus such that the imaging system’s point-spread-function PSF (coloured circles) is smaller than the pixel pitch
regions of the scene are not collected by the pixels (grey areas)
Shifting the sensor out of the focal plane blurs the PSF and ensures collection of the temporal information from each point in the scene
The combination of sensor fusion and optical blur negates the heavy under-sampling of the scene caused by the pixel geometry of the SPAD array at the expense of sacrificing a percentage of the collected light intensity for the higher resolution sensor (up to 50% in the work shown here)
a data cube with the temporal resolution of the SPAD detector and the spatial resolution of the CCD camera is reconstructed
our approach is capable of compensating sensor flaws like dead pixels in the SPAD array
We first verify our method with numerical simulations and assess its performance—details of this can be found in the Supplementary Information
We then demonstrate the method practically on two different temporal imaging schemes: namely multipath LIDAR and FLIM
(b) \(32\times 32 \times t\) SPAD measurement
(c) \(96\times 96\times t\) reconstructed light-in-flight image and (d) depth images extracted from the SPAD measurement (top) and the reconstruction (bottom) for different scenes
(a,b) are used as the inputs for our algorithm
From top to bottom the measurements show a golfball
a plastic cup filled with water in front of a slanted wall
three cardboard letters with a few centimetres distance between them in front of a slanted wall
Black areas in the depth images correspond to pixels with very low signal-to-noise ratio that therefore contain no meaningful depth information
The goal of our method is to construct a final dataset with the spatial resolution of a high pixel density CCD sensor and the temporal resolution of a SPAD array
For a SPAD dataset of spatial resolution \(m \times n\) pixels and \(\tau \) timebins
and a high pixel density dataset of \(M \times N\) pixels
SPAD arrays typically suffer from poor fill-factor (around 1% for the array in this work, see “Methods”)
this results in a loss of information from light falling outside of the active areas
needs to be optically filtered to prevent aliasing
We achieve this by moving the sensor slightly out of focus
such that the light from each point in the scene reaches at least one pixel’s active area and we therefore capture the temporal information from each point within the scene
The resulting blur is then accounted for during the data analysis (see Supplementary Information) such that the algorithm retrieves the full \(i_\text {HR}(x,y,t)\) with the correct temporal information at each spatial coordinate
The forward model is designed to encapsulate these features
where B performs a blurring operation to account for the defocusing
S is a mask accounting for the sparse sampling of the SPAD array
and P performs a spatial downsizing of the higher \(M \times N\) dimensions to the lower \(m \times n\) dimensions (full details in Supplementary Information)
the low spatial-resolution time-of-flight image d
with \(A_\tau \) applying A to all time bins and both \(i_\text {HR}\) and d being in vector form
where T performs a temporal integration over the data cube
c is the vectorized CCD image and \(K_h\) and \(K_l\) perform a spatial integration over the high resolution and low resolution data cube
The third term enforces a similarity between the temporal distribution of photon counts in the measured data and in the reconstruction
this proved to be an essential prior in the reconstruction
The fourth term promotes sparsity of the reconstructed data cube and
while not affecting the quality of the result significantly
it ensures stability of the reconstruction
The last term is a 2-dimensional total variation prior that acts on the spatial dimensions of each frame
which we found to significantly improve the results for scenes with large amounts of multiply scattered light
To model the blur of the defocused image on the SPAD sensor
a standard deviation of 6 CCD pixel widths was used
This value was found empirically as the one yielding the best reconstruction results and its accordance with the data was verified using in- and out-of-focus data acquisitions
The raw data of our SPAD measurements, as well as the reconstructed high resolution light-in-flight images rendered as videos showing the light propagating through the scene, can be found in the Supplementary Information, along with run times for all datasets.
Spatial upsampling of the fluorescence lifetime of SKOV3 cancer cells
(a) Full \(256 \times 256\) resolution intensity image
(b) Down-sampled low resolution fluorescence lifetime image
(c) Ground truth image at the full \(256 \times 256\) resolution
(d) Result of our reconstruction algorithm with a \(4 \times 4\) pixel upsampling
(e) Distribution of the reconstructed lifetimes
(f) The pixel-by-pixel difference in lifetime between the Reconstruction and the Ground Truth Data
Our results show a reduction in the number of time-resolved measurements (spatial points) by at least a factor of 16 can be achieved with the amount of time needed to acquire the high resolution image being small in comparison
that substantial time is still required for the reconstruction post-measurement
Whilst the temporal information within a LIDAR scene can often be readily approximated with a linear interpolation
this is rarely the case for more complex systems such as FLIM where there may be non-trivial sub-micron changes in the lifetime
account for these small scale variations by acquiring temporal information from the whole scene and by interpreting using the high-resolution spatial information as an additional constraint
Fluorescence lifetime images of SKOV3 cancer cells expressing pcDNA3.1-mClover from a SPAD-CCD based microscope
(a) Intensity image from the CCD sensor at a spatial resolution of \(304 \times 152\) pixels
(b) Lifetime image obtained from the SPAD sensor with a resolution of \(76 \times 38\) pixels
(c) Reconstructed image upscaled by a factor of \(4 \times 4\) to the same resolution as (a)
(d) The lifetime distributions of the reconstructed image and the low spatial resolution dataset from the SPAD sensors (Ground Truth)
(e) The pixel-by-pixel difference between low-resolution data and the reconstruction downsampled to the same pixel resolution
Our method shows that with a simple optical set-up and a conventional camera
the spatial resolution of a SPAD array sensor can be increased significantly
a factor of 12 could be achieved on each spatial dimension
corresponding to a factor of 144 in pixel count
Low fill factor limitations could be overcome by moving the SPAD sensor slightly out of focus
the proposed method has the potential to push the spatial resolution of time-resolved SPAD arrays well beyond the current state of the art and into the few mega pixel domain
Holes in the SPAD measurement due to dead pixels are filled in by the reconstruction
This has been demonstrated on measurement data with an upsampling factor of \(3 \times 3\) on LIDAR data and a factor of \(4 \times 4\) on FLIM data due to hardware limitations
On additional datasets that have not been captured with our hardware set-up we demonstrated upsampling of \(8 \times 8\) and \(16 \times 16 \) after blurring and downsampling the original \(256 \times 256\) pixels SPAD data
as well as those from simulated measurements
suggest that using a CCD sensor with higher pixel density
our method would allow higher upsampling factors also with our original hardware set-up
our method is not limited by a low signal-to-noise ratio or the presence of ambient light as evidenced by the reconstructions in the Supplementary Information (“Upsampling results on other data sets” Section)
The main limitation of our method is the long run time of the reconstructions
which scales with the size of the reconstruction as well as the original SPAD measurement
A full calibration of the light transport matrix
which would include all optical effects for the specific hardware set-up accurately
might yield even better results on experimental data
it would supposedly also make the model more bound to a specific set-up
and less flexible in the application to new unknown hardware systems
it could be a worthwhile enhancement for a fixed (commercial) system
Considering the availability of small form factor SPAD and CCD sensors
All data and code used in this article can be found at https://github.com/ccallenberg/spad-ccd-fusion
The emCCD is used without gain such that it operates as a conventional CCD
Exposure times of the order of 100 ms are used
The same camera objective (12 cm fisheye) is used for both sensors in parallel
The illumination source is Ti:Sapph oscillator of 130 fs pulse duration at a repetition rate of 80 MHz and a centre wavelength of 800 nm which flood illuminates the scene
The SPAD camera acquisition is synchronised with the laser using an Optical Constant Fraction Discriminator to minimise electronic jitter
The following process was used to prepare the data shown in Fig. 3
Cells were left to equilibrate on a heated microscope insert at 37 \(^\circ \)C
perfused with 5 % \(\hbox {CO}_2\) prior to imaging
Images were acquired in the dark using a multiphoton LaVision TRIM scan head mounted on a Nikon Eclipse inverted microscope with a 20X water objective
Illumination is provided by a Ti:Sapphire femtosecond laser used at 920 nm (12 % power)
Clover signal was passed through band pass filters 525/50 nm emission and acquired using a FLIM X-16 Bioimaging Detector TCSPC FLIM system (LaVision BioTec)
A 254 \(\upmu \hbox {m}^2\) field of view correlating to 256 \(\hbox {pixel}^2\) was imaged at 600 Hz with a 10 line average in a total acquisition time of 5199 ms
The microscope consisted of a \(\times \)20 0.4 NA Olympus objective with a 250 mm focal length tube lens for the Zyla and a 50 mm tube lens for the SPAD sensor
resulting in a \(\times \)5.5 magnification at the SPAD sensor compared to the Zyla
Before passing the data into the reconstruction algorithm the images from the Zyla were downsampled to a size of \(608 \times 304\) pixels from which a \(304 \times 152\) pixel area was taken to match a \(76 \times 38\) pixel area selected from the SPAD field of view
cells were collected and replated onto 35 mm glass bottom MatTek dishes that were previously coated overnight with laminin (10 \(\upmu \)g \(\hbox {ml}^{-1}\)) diluted in PBS
These were left overnight at 37 \(^\circ \)C
the dishes were washed twice with pre-warmed PBS and replaced with pre-warmed FluoroBrite DMEM supplemented with 10 % FBS
the cells were collected and replated onto 22 mm glass coverslips that were previously coated overnight with laminin (10 \(\upmu \text {gml}^{-1}\)) diluted in PBS
These were left overnight at 37 \(^\circ \)C
these cells were fixed in 4% PFA for 10 minutes and washed with PBS and mounted using Fluromount-G (Southern Biotech)
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As the crusade for a better work and life balance gains momentum
more industrial action is looming over the UK’s offshore energy sector
with workers backing up strike action due to disputes over working rotas
which have not been settled with IES Callenberg and SGS UK Limited
This wave of strike action will hit several platforms operated by BP
In January 2024, the UK’s Unite the union was setting the wheels into motion to ballot over 50 members in the offshore sector by holding industrial action ballots at IES Callenberg and SGS UK Limited due to – what was said to be – the companies’ failure to improve jobs
commented: “Unite has attempted to get both IES Callenberg and SGS to listen to the concerns of our members with no success
IES Callenberg has gone even further by banning its staff from discussing with clients or the offshore installation manager the very nature of the dispute
“The disputes are not only about rates of pay but the current working rota of three weeks on and three weeks off
Our members work all year round but their training is carried out during their field breaks
This leaves our offshore members disadvantaged compared to onshore staff which is unacceptable.“
Around 60 members in the offshore sector – including chemists
and ventilation engineers – have now cast their votes in favor of strike action in disputes over working rotas
the IES Callenberg members supported strike action by 82.8% on a 72.5% turnout
The dispute encompasses around 50 offshore workers who provide heating
and air conditioning services on offshore platforms operated by BP
These workers will take three-day strike action over three months
the SGS UK Limited members of Unite backed strike action by 89% on a 100% turnout
who are servicing BP’s platforms – Clair
and Glen Lyon – will take week-long strike action over a series of months
the industrial action will take place on March 25 – 31
the workers’ fight for a better work and life balance is at the heart of both disputes
the UK union has drawn attention to the growing number of workers in the offshore sector
which are recording concerns over physical and mental burnout
the IES Callenberg and SGS UK Limited members
who work 12-hour shifts for three weeks at a time
are required to conduct any training during their field breaks while onshore staff employed by both companies are not required to take training during their holidays
SGS UK Limited made £27.6 million (currently nearly $35.32 million) profit after tax in 2022 and amassed over £51 million (around $65.26 million) in profits over the last four years while IES Callenberg increased its turnover to £12.5 million (almost $16 million) and reported £461,693 (about $590,711) in profit after tax in 2022
more than double the profit in the previous year
highlighted: “Unite will stand shoulder to shoulder with our members employed by SGS and IES Callenberg
These are profitable companies which must start treating workers fairly
“Our offshore workers are fully prepared to fight to get the improved terms and conditions they deserve
We will ensure that our members are backed all the way in the campaign to secure better jobs
pay and conditions in the offshore sector.”
Unite also showed its determination to help tackle the offshore rotation disputes and enable its members to secure an improved work-life balance by throwing its support behind more than 100 offshore drillers, who voted unanimously in favor of industrial action and a continuous overtime ban
However, things took a turn for the better shortly after, culminating in the UK union‘s confirmation that the dispute was settled
following a new working rotation for these offshore drillers
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Swedish Stena Line that operates a ferry service between Gothenburg and Danish Frederikshavn has made a deal with with Callenberg Technology Group
In three stages signified by different sized batteries
they want to electrify the vessel Stena Jutlandica
1 MWh of batteries will be installed on the deck of the Swedish ferry
The 3,000 kW battery pack holds enough power for the Stena Jutlandica to thrust and maneuver when in port
Stage two will see the connection of a 20 MWh battery pack to the propellers
Stena Jutlandica will thus be able to sail all-electrically for about 10 nautical miles
equal to the distance between Göteborg and Vinga Lighthouse
the battery capacity will be further expanded to 50 MWh
That will last for 50 nautical miles of all-electric range
Those 92 kilometres correspond to the distance between Gothenburg and Frederikshavn so that the route will be operated with zero emissions
The batteries are charged ashore but can also be topped up by the ship’s generators
this gradual approach serves to gather experiences with electric operations as they go
Step by step electrification may also enable them to save some money
Stena Line CEO: “As both the size and cost of batteries decrease
battery operation becomes a very exciting alternative to traditional fuels for shipping
as emissions to air can be completely eliminated.”
The Callenberg Technology Group cooperates with Stena Teknik for this project
The latter also works research institutions
The first phase of the project is jointly financed by the Swedish Transport Administration and the EU
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Works from the Episcopal Seminary and the Church of the Eremitani at the Diocesan Museum of Padua initially scheduled for fall 2024
the exhibition will therefore be open from March 8 to June 8
this postponement proved to be a valuable opportunity: over the past months
the research work accompanying the preparation of the exhibition has brought to light new discoveries
enriching both the exhibition proposal and the documentary apparatus
the opening of the exhibition will coincide with the start of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Diocesan Museum (it was officially opened in 2000)
which for the occasion will be enhanced by a new lighting system provided by iGuzzini.The centerpiece of the exhibition is the Vaso cinerario (cinerary vase) of Countess Louise von Callenberg
owned by the parish of the Eremitani of Padua and originally placed in the exterior spaces of the church
created by Antonio Canova between 1803 and 1807
had been thought to have been destroyed following the March 1944 bombing
which caused severe damage to the city and the Eremitani complex
thanks to extensive research on the famous sculptor’s works in the Veneto region and the inventory of CEI’s ecclesiastical cultural assets (beweb.it)
the work was found within the parish rooms
The exhibition will revolve around this significant find: the recomposition of the entire funerary monument designed and created by architect Giannantonio Selva and sculptor Domenico Fadiga will be proposed
The monument included a cippus on which stood the work of Canova
accompanied by an inscription attributable to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
a stele with an epigraph written by Abbot Stefano Antonio Morcelli
each with an inscription dedicated to prominent figures of the time
also at the center of an interesting story of recovery
which will be reconstructed and presented in the exhibition itinerary
The exhibition will also include other works by Canova
including the valuable collection of Manfredini prints
and a section entirely devoted to documents
2025 will mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Sartori Canova (1775-1858)
who in his youth studied at the Episcopal Seminary in Padua
Documents will be on display that attest to his deep connection with the institute
which preserves a valuable medagliere containing some 3,600 coins from ancient Rome
some of which were provided by Antonio Canova himself to his brother as an iconographic reference for some of his sculptures
The works on display will also include casts
which testify not only to the artistic value of Canova’s work
but also to his relationship with Padua and his connections with leading figures of the European aristocracy
The exhibition will take place inside the Diocesan Museum in the Bishop’s Palace
The Barbarigo Hall will host the section dedicated to historical documents
the medagliere and some plaster sculptures
will host the reconstruction of the funeral monument of Countess von Callenberg
as it appeared outside the Church of the Eremitani
at the foot of a centuries-old cypress tree that still stands today
the exhibition will tell a compelling story
full of almost fictional elements and curiosities
nobles and intellectuals into a mosaic that takes shape thanks to the pieces on display in the exhibition
The exhibition is organized by the Diocese of Padua
in collaboration with the Diocesan Museum of Padua
the Diocesan Service for Sacred Art and Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage
the Library of the Episcopal Seminary and the Diocesan Historical Archives
with the support of the Soprintendenza Archeologia
Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the provinces of Venice
It enjoys the patronage of the Veneto Region
the Province of Padua and the City of Padua and was made possible thanks to the support of entities and institutions such as the Province of Padua
Confindustria Veneto Est and 8xmille to the Catholic Church
Also contributing to the realization of the exhibition were other entities and individuals who joined the project “It’s close to my heart,” promoted years ago by the Diocesan Museum to involve civil society in the recovery and enhancement of the local artistic heritage
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With more workers expected to cast their votes over the next few weeks
the wave of disputes over working rotas is spreading across the UK’s offshore sector
As offshore workers ponder whether to go on a strike in a bid to improve their work-life balance
industrial action looms over multiple platforms operated by BP
the UK’s Unite the union is in the process of balloting over 50 members in the offshore sector – covering chemists
heating and ventilation engineers – by holding industrial action ballots at IES Callenberg and SGS UK Limited
The union explains that these companies failed to improve the jobs
highlighted: “These disputes center on the demand by workers at both companies to have the same holiday and working patterns as onshore shift workers
Unite will stand shoulder to shoulder with our offshore members and they have our full support in their fight for better jobs
While the IES Callenberg dispute involves over 40 offshore workers who provide heating
chemists who provide services to the offshore oil and gas industry employed by SGS UK Limited are also being balloted on industrial action
the SGS UK Limited dispute centers exclusively on chemists servicing BP’s platforms the Clair
are slated to close on February 22. These disputes spotlight the workers fighting for a better work and life balance
its members in the offshore sector are increasingly recording concerns over physical and mental burnout
and stress due to staff shortages. The IES Callenberg and SGS UK Limited members work 12-hour shifts for three weeks at a time
they are required to conduct any needed training during their field breaks
underlined: “Unite has tried to get the companies to listen to our members’ concerns
The overriding concern driving these disputes is that workers at IES Callenberg and SGS UK Limited currently work a three weeks on and three weeks off rota
all required training must be carried out during their break
This situation is unacceptable and it needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency
our members will be forced to take strike action
While SGS UK Limited made £27.6 million (nearly $35.1 million) profit after tax in 2022 and amassed over £51 million (around $64.83 million) in profits over the last four years
IES Callenberg increased its turnover to £12.5 million (almost $15.9 million) and reported £461,693 (about $586,920) in profit after tax in 2022
The widening of the offshore working rota disputes comes only days after around 100 offshore workers, employed by Odfjell Technology and working on Equinor’s platform in the UK sector of the North Sea, decided to embark on strike action to secure improvements to working rotas
The strike action will entail a series of 24-hour strikes taking place every Monday
with a continuous overtime ban in place throughout the 12-week period
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