United Steelworkers (USW) District 13 includes the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
Workers across every facet of our economy, including hundreds of thousands of USW members, are ready and willing to help our nation meet its needs.
The purposes of the PRO Act are simple: to ensure workers can push for the changes we want to see at our jobs without fear of retaliation, and to strengthen workers’ rights to form a union and negotiate for those changes if we so choose.
Rapid Response is asking USW members across the country to contact their U.S. senators and urge them to vote YES for the PRO Act. Please call your senators at: 877-607-0785. (Remember, you have two senators, so be sure to make two calls!)
Click to read a message from the NOBP Chair.
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.
District 13 Director
Ruben Garza