More than 500 workers at a oil and gas refinery that produces something like 8 percent of California's oil and gas every day. (Richmond is in the Bay Area).
Workers have been on strike for two months, opposing a contract which only raises their pay by 12 percent over 4 years. When adjusted for inflation, that's a pay cut… even if inflation is lower next year.
They just got handed a contract by the USW which, so far, looks *worse* than what they were given twice before (which they voted down twice).
Oil workers here are not alone. There are tens of thousands of oil and gas workers across the US, and many more internationally, fighting against inflationary wage cuts, understaffing and unsafe working conditions.
The USW and Chevron have handed workers a sellout, the need is for workers to have their own, democratic organizations that genuinely represent them and seek to unite workers in a real struggle against the oil companies.
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