Posted on 02/01/2015 12:34:34 PM PST by george76
Union leaders called strikes on Sunday at nine U.S. refineries in a bid to pressure oil companies to agree to a new national contract covering workers at 63 plants.
The walkouts, the first held in support of a nationwide pact since 1980, target plants that together account for more than 10 percent of U.S. refining capacity. The discord comes as plunging crude prices force oil companies to slash spending.
Royal Dutch Shell, the lead industry negotiator, indicated talks had broken down.
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Shell activated a strike contingency plan at its sprawling joint venture refinery in Deer Park, Texas, to keep operating normally.
Other companies have said they could call on trained managers to use as replacement workers, so the strikes are not expected to cause gasoline prices to spike.
The United Steelworkers union (USW) did not say at which plants the strikes would be held.
But one source familiar with union plans said walkouts were called at Exxon Mobil Corp's refinery in Beaumont, Texas, two Marathon Petroleum refineries and Lyondell Basell's plant near Houston. Also included were Marathon's refinery in Kentucky, Tesoro Corp's Benicia and Martinez plants in California, and its refinery in Anacortes, Washington,
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With oil prices down and layoffs popping up everywhere in the oil industry , this is a very bad time to strike ,so I think this is coming right from the White House
I just took the Tactical Diesel Reserve yesterday from 0% to 40% yesterday. I’m now good for three months, thanks.
Unions sure suck, don’t they? Back in the days, 150 years ago, when a mine owner controlled a company town, or when there were 80 to 100 hour weeks in textile factories, they were a good thing. Over time, they became corrupt power centers of their own, rife with mob influence.
They sucked so bad by WWII that it took Lucky Luciano to make the docks run right during the war.
And, don’t get me started about the SEIU... even socialist FDR said that the government could not be unionized. Thanks JFK, for making it possible. /S
Prices down, so the unions and government have a vested interest in raising them.
Yesterday, I took the Tactical Diesel Reserve from 0% to 40% . I’m now good for three months, thanks.
Where’s the “bring back jobs now, just sayin’” guy?
Why would Obama want to send gas prices climbing again?
The longshoremen are causing backups at the west coast ports now too.
KEEP THE UNIONS OUT - they will muck up everything and oil prices will go up - not down...
I had a union car guys that worlds for Ford in Louisville, KY brag to me that he was out of vacation days - so he told his foreman that he spend the weekend drinking and didn’t feel well on Monday...they put him off all week as punishment, but he still was paid the same as they paid his replacement. He took that money and went to Florida with his wife and more-or-less as he explained it - still got a PAID vacation...and then returned to his job...he thought that was a smart move his part...
We wonder why manufacturing left the US - we wonder why Union built means crap and over priced...and we wonder why unions had great pensions - because the cost of that is in each thing they build! They were a good thing back in the early days of the industrial revolution - but not anymore....their greed and corruption is a disease...
Fill up QUICK!
Because he hates America, that's why!
Pardon, what is the Tactical Diesel Reserve you mention and its significance for an individual - investment?
Thanks
The govt is losing tax revenue with low oil prices.
With oil prices down and layoffs popping up everywhere in the oil industry , this is a very bad time to strike ,so I think this is coming right from the White House.
THink we will survive?
They may move overseas but a better solution is to fire them and make it a non union shop when the contract expires.
Since I happen to live in Anacortes, WA, I know what kind of dough these guys make, and what sort of retirement they get. I’m cryin’ here! /s
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