The executives of the Indian Oil Corporation, HPCL, EIL have decided not to join the indefinite strike called by the Oil Sector Officers Association from December 2 to push for higher wages.
  
Despite Delhi High Court's November 17 restrain, urging the OSOA not to go on strike till next hearing in February, the organization on Tuesday (November 25) announced an indefinite strike from next month. The outfit represents around 55,000 executives of the 14 oil Public Sector Units.

While Hindustan Petroleum was never part of the agitation called by OSOA, the members of Indian Oil, Engineers India and Oil India on Thursday announced their decision of not participating in the agitation as they felt it was not right to precipitate the crisis facing the country, a media report said.  

However, officers in GAIL India and Bharat Petroleum had earlier assured that they would now allow the agitation to disrupt the regular operations. 

Terming the existing salary package as “good-enough” IOC Chairman Sarthak Behuria said that the Government of India had given a liberal 40 to 200 percent hike in wages and according to me it was a good package.