Posted on 03/21/2022 12:01:35 PM PDT by rktman
After weeks of stalled negotiations between Chevron’s Richmond, California refinery and the local chapter of the United Steelworkers union, union members voted to go on strike last night. In anticipation of the walkout, Chevron made an unusual preemptive move to keep the plant in operation. They bussed out more than 500 union workers and brought in non-union replacements to keep the operation going while negotiations with the union continue. This has some labor leaders crying foul, but analysts agree that a sudden shutdown of a major refinery during the current supply chain crisis in the oil and gas industry would be disastrous.
Union workers were removed from a Chevron Corp oil refinery near San Francisco hours ahead of a deadline to begin the first labor strike at the gasoline producing plant in more than 40 years.
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, said USW Local 5 First Vice President B.K. White in an interview.
The existing labor contract at the Richmond, California, refinery expired Feb. 1 and efforts since then failed to reach an agreement. The union twice voted to reject the company’s offers.
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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
I guess you would have to find out the difference between “qualified” and employed. With a Union contract, you really don’t have to be qualified.
But someone who knows what they are doing will always find a job.
I wonder if the vote to strike was rigged.
“Put those commie pukes in the unemployment live.”
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While they are supposed to get paid Strike Pay by the union, I would dearly enjoy/relish the union having to bottom out their Strike Fund!!
Now, THAT would bring the union to the table.....
Strike pay doesn’t amount to much, just gas money if you’re lucky.
Trump would have invoked the NDA in the current circumstances.
More likely he'd dictate a settlement that would drive California gas prices to $10/gallon.
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