Striking California Oil Refinery Workers Demand Better Safety, Wages
by Haya El Nasser, AJE, USA- Smoke is billowing from the mammoth Tesoro oil refinery, but none of the plant’s 800 union workers are on the job.
They’re outside, picketing at each of the eight gates to the refinery. Truckers and motorists honk their horns in support as they whiz by on 223rd Street in this industrial city south of Los Angeles, home of a soccer stadium used by the Los Angeles Galaxy.
It is now Day 4 of a strike by 3,800 oil refinery workers at nine plants in California, Texas, Kentucky and Washington state, which represent 10 percent of U.S. refining capacity. The strike could expand to other sites.
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