Posted on 02/18/2015 5:44:56 PM PST by mdittmar
Arrogant oil refiners concerned more about profits than the safety and workplace concerns of thousands of USW-represented oil workers forced the union to call an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike.
The industry, represented by Royal Dutch Shell, gave the USW no other option when it refused to bargain in good faith over a national contract even though the union was prepared to continue talking beyond the midnight deadline.
“Shell refused to provide us with a counter-offer and left the bargaining table,” International President Leo W. Gerard said. “We had no choice but to give notice of a work stoppage.”
The negotiations for a new national contract cover 30,000 USW-represented workers at over 230 facilities, including 65 U.S. refineries and dozens of oil terminals, pipelines and petrochemical plants.
Once bargaining broke down over the companies’ bad faith bargaining, strikes began on Feb. 1 at nine refineries and related facilities in four states that employ 3,800 workers and produce nearly 10 percent of the nation’s gasoline, diesel and other fuels
F U Unions.
Time for some union busting.
The Unions have picked a very inopportune time to negotiate new contracts. The Oil Industry would like nothing more than to lay all these people off until the price of oil goes back up to $100 a barrel.
And the other side of this story is?
Blah, blah, blah, blah........
Is it me, or does it seem that between the Longshoremen and the refinery workers, the Unions seem to have gotten their marching orders to help bury the Republic ASAP???
Nah, those union thugs wouldn't do anything like that, would they? /sarcasm.
This will not help the storage space shortage isssue a-tall.
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nah,
Greedy? Arrogant? I guess when the facts are against you, you resort to personal attacks.
Arrogant Unions
the other side of the story ...rotating shifts 12 hour or 8 hours. Working around very high pressure lines tanks full of poisonous liquid and gases and every once in a while getting that said liquid and oil by products all over you fixing a live line leak. Working on a drilling rig and production hoist...those are some of the great things I used to do working for this union. 35 years of this... getting dirty and never getting enough sleep .....was able to retire
Cheers back at ya.
Why would oil companies want to lay off refinery workers due to low oil prices?
Do you imagine people will use less fuel because it is cheaper?
Oil is a cost to a refinery. They buy it as feedstock to make fuels. Having the feedstock price drop is a bonus to a refinery. Like cheaper meats and vegetables for a restaurant.
That refinery was not on strike. The unit that exploded was down for maintenance.
Big Labor pretty much always sucks.
How do you raise the price of gas when crude is cheep?
Make it scarce. How do you make it scarce? Shut down
production. How do you shut down production? Tell the
unions to go spoon a goose.
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