United Steelworkers (USW) District 13 includes the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
Over the past year, ExxonMobil told our Steelworker siblings at Local 13-243 they were essential as they worked through the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, floods and an unprecedented freeze. Now, ExxonMobil is rewarding that hard work and sacrifice by forcing them off their jobs.
On May 1, ExxonMobil locked out more than 650 Steelworkers at their Beaumont, Texas refinery and their blending and packaging plant to force the workers to accept a proposal which included major changes impacting members’ safety, security and seniority.
Our siblings at Local 13-243 want to work but were turned away from ExxonMobil in Beaumont, Texas. Locked out of their jobs and cut off from pay, our families are now forced to feed their families with union donations.
Today locked-out workers from the ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) oil refinery and blending and packaging plant in Beaumont demonstrated outside the company’s offices in Irving during its annual shareholders meeting, which took place virtually this morning.
The USW held its first virtual session about its infrastructure initiative, We Supply America, on May 10 when International President Tom Conway and International Vice President Roxanne Brown provided an overview and answered members’ questions.
Seven members of the USW, including USW International President Tom Conway, today testified at an International Trade Commission hearing, sounding the alarm over the harm dumped and illegally subsidized imports inflict on the domestic tire industry.
Members from USW Locals 9308, 752L and 752L-03 held an action at a distributor of Fenner Dunlop products earlier this month.
On April 23, the company provided written notice of its intention to lock out workers starting May 1 unless they accepted a proposal which included major changes impacting members’ safety, security and seniority.
District 13 Director
Ruben Garza