Posted on 03/21/2022 12:05:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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 agreement. The union twice voted to reject the company's offers.
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So, Is Trump running Chevron?
The USW and most U.S. refiners last month reached a national agreement that provides a 12% pay raise over four years to the union’s about 30,000 members at U.S. oil and chemical companies.
Inflation is going to lead to strikes and more shortages....................
Corporate Espionage?
Yes, inflation is a vicious cycle.
All the Sheeple were so danged excited when the Gubment sent them “free” money after the Covid lockdowns.
There are also rumblings that the railway unions may strike soon.
The best way to get rid of union thugs?
There are also rumblings that the railway unions may strike soon.
Canadian Pacific already on strike.
Just like the east coast Longshoremen went on strike at the height of WW2.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
I hate unions. Now you know why.
Whew! Don’t even get me started on them! Long history from our family biz growing up.
I’ve been in this kind of situations once. A tense and strange situation.
I was 3 or 4 years out of college working in process R&D at a large petrochemical facility. The primary union contract was expired and as a contingency, the company implemented plans to slam 100% of R&D into production units to replace striking union workers. This meant 800 engineers, chemists, techs and salaried maintenance slammed in to replace something like 3-4 thousand union workers
A couple of weeks before the drop dead date, I began working in a operating unit to be an outside operator. The persons training me were union folks I would replace. Tense but professional on everyone’s part.
About 10 years prior, the union had gone on strike for about 2 months and the company had slammed R&D into the units. You have 1 person replacing a number of strikers. Massive overtime and an open checkbook.
During the previous strike, the facility set productivity records and profits were up. Lots of manual tasks automated and procedures changed. Quite a number of the strikers found that their jobs no longer existed. Tasks that used to take several workers now took only one, that sort of thing.
The strike never occurred, a new contract was signed a few days before the walkout.
Chevron corporate R&D is in California. I wonder if they are gearing up?
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