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Oil strike wins improved safety languageOil strike wins improved safety language

Oil strike wins improved safety language

Members of Steelworkers Local 13-1 begin returning to work at Marathon Oil’s Galveston Bay Refinery (GBR) on July 6. After…

July 9, 2015
Oil strike not quite overOil strike not quite over

Oil strike not quite over

After four months on the picket line, workers at the BP Husky refinery in Toledo, Ohio, are starting to return…

June 11, 2015
On strike against BP, Marathon, workers keep fighting for safety, job securityOn strike against BP, Marathon, workers keep fighting for safety, job security

On strike against BP, Marathon, workers keep fighting for safety, job security

UPDATE: On May 11 USW Local 7-1 announced that the membership had ratified a new contract and BP and the union had…

May 12, 2015
Oil strike breakthroughOil strike breakthrough

Oil strike breakthrough

March 22 — The U.S. oil refinery strike, which began Feb. 1, appears to be moving toward a resolution. The…

March 26, 2015
5.000 obreros petroleros en huelga5.000 obreros petroleros en huelga

5.000 obreros petroleros en huelga

Toledo, Ohio - Desde el 1º de febrero, miles de trabajadores petroleros alrededor del país - miembros del sindicato United…

February 24, 2015
5,000 oil workers on strike5,000 oil workers on strike

5,000 oil workers on strike

Toledo, Ohio — Since Feb. 1, thousands of oil workers across the country — members of the United Steelworkers union…

February 17, 2015
Workers strike Big Oil for safetyWorkers strike Big Oil for safety

Workers strike Big Oil for safety

Anacortes, Wash. -- In the first national strike in decades, 3,800 refinery workers represented by the United Steelworkers union went…

February 13, 2015
Fighting Syracuse University students say, “We will not submit!”Fighting Syracuse University students say, “We will not submit!”

Fighting Syracuse University students say, “We will not submit!”

Syracuse, N.Y. -- On Day 18 of the student sit-in at Syracuse University’s administration building, “THE General Body,” a united front…

December 2, 2014

Two opposing views on climate change

Nov. 10 — Haiyan, a disastrous Class 5 super-typhoon, just roared across the Philippines with winds believed to have set…

November 12, 2013