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Lockout looms for 600 workers at Exxon's Beaumont plant
« on: April 27, 2021, 09:26:56 pm »
Houston Chronicle by Jacob Dick 4/27/2021

More than 600 employees could be locked out at ExxonMobil’s refining and packaging plant in downtown Beaumont by the end of the week if labor negotiations don’t resume in the next couple of days.

Both ExxonMobil and the United SteelWorkers have confirmed that meetings ended Friday without an agreement. The company reaffirmed that a lockout would be initiated after this coming Saturday if active negotiations weren’t resumed.

The existing labor contract requires that the union and the company must give each other 75 days’ advance notice before a strike or a lockout. The USW and ExxonMobil each provided their respective 75-days notices to each other on Feb. 15 of this year, according to both groups, which created a looming deadline for a contract to be reached.

ExxonMobil’s downtown refining complex has a production capacity of 369,024 barrels-per-day, and is in the middle of an expansion project that could make it the largest in North America.

More: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/ExxonMobil-union-prepare-as-labor-negotiations-16131947.php
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Re: Lockout looms for 600 workers at Exxon's Beaumont plant
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2021, 12:14:38 pm »
Not a wage concern but more about job security, the union claims.  The company wants longer contracts I believe.
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Re: Lockout looms for 600 workers at Exxon's Beaumont plant
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2021, 12:35:39 pm »
In Biden-world, these are unnecessary people and need to learn to code.
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Re: Lockout looms for 600 workers at Exxon's Beaumont plant
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2021, 01:18:36 pm »
Site hasn't striked since the late '80's.  Near misses, but cooler heads seem to prevail in what seems to be a once a half decade game of chicken. 

OTOH, Big Oil has saw some unprecedented hard times in the last year, and the likes XOM, CVX, et. al. might not be in such a good position for concessions.   At this exact moment, I give the odds of a strike at about 30-40%
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Re: Lockout looms for 600 workers at Exxon's Beaumont plant
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2021, 01:58:55 pm »
Teaching them to code would be a waste of money.  The tech jobs get offshored to India and China; those that don't are filled with H1-B visas to facilitate knowledge transfer to India and China.

It's either cleaning bed pans at the nursing home or asking "Would you like fries with that?" when working the drive-thru window.  Oh, dang, I forgot that illegal immigrants fill those jobs.
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Re: Lockout looms for 600 workers at Exxon's Beaumont plant
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2021, 03:49:05 pm »
When my son was laid off from the Oil Patch he got picked up right away at SpaceX.

Indeed shows 818 jobs for SpaceX.  And that's just one company.
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Re: Lockout looms for 600 workers at Exxon's Beaumont plant
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2021, 05:33:47 pm »
That plant started refining in 1903.
Been there a long time.
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Re: Lockout looms for 600 workers at Exxon's Beaumont plant
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2021, 05:42:43 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on April 28, 2021, 05:33:47 pm
That plant started refining in 1903.
Been there a long time.

I did work in that plant.  Lots of very old stuff still in service.

We hit a buried 42 inch diameter clay piping system installing a vapor recovery compressor.  It was still tied to the fire water system, but a dead leg under pressure.
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Re: Lockout looms for 600 workers at Exxon's Beaumont plant
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