Unions care about union dues, not workers.
Refineries employ fewer employees because of automation.
They went to automation because of the unions.
“More than 500 United Steelworkers members were bussed out of the plant Sunday evening and replaced by non-union staff. No new contract talks are planned,..”
That’s how ya do it. Put those commie pukes in the unemployment live.
Surely they can bring in Booty-Gig to negotiate a settlement?
During Jimmah Carter’s inflation there was strike after strike after strike.
Unions are a lot weaker these days but where there are unions that can strike, there will be lots of strikes.
It is one of the second order effects of an inflationary economy.
A strike by the OCAW is a coercive act at the behest of the democraps.
A friend told me the other day that a qualified new hire machinist at the Exxon refinery in Louisiana starts at $100K, vested in three years and is “guaranteed” to have $1MM in retirement savings in 8 years. These guys often get all the overtime they can stomach as well. Why strike?
and now even higher gas prices.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and President Joe Biden have concerns of “profiteering” by gas companies.
Just sayin’.
sudden shutdown of a major refinery during the current supply chain crisis in the oil and gas industry would be disastrous.“
Leave it to the Union to use the crises while the country has a gun to its head
Trump would have invoked the NDA in the current circumstances.