{"id":31826,"date":"2024-09-04T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=31826"},"modified":"2024-09-04T20:19:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T01:19:08","slug":"marathons-detroit-refinery-union-workers-go-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=31826","title":{"rendered":"Marathon&#8217;s Detroit refinery union workers go on strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Sept 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Teamsters members working at Marathon Petroleum&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/MPC.N\"><u>(MPC.N), opens new tab<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;Detroit refinery have gone on strike after months of pay- and safety-related negotiations with the company did not yield results, the company said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are fully prepared and have implemented plans to continue safely operating the facility,&#8221; a Marathon spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The company does not anticipate the strike will cause supply disruptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Workers called for an economic strike following a nine-month negotiation and mediation with the company to reach a new labour agreement. The prior contract expired in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Teamsters local 283 represents 273 workers at the Detroit refinery, 95% of whom authorised the strike, the union said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Marathon did not immediately say how many people it employed at the refinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Marathon&#8217;s Detroit refinery has a crude oil refining capacity of 140,000 barrels per day, processing sweet and heavy sour crude oils into products such as gasoline and distillates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/commodities\/marathons-detroit-refinery-workers-go-strike-union-says-2024-09-04\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Teamsters members working at Marathon Petroleum&#8217;s&nbsp;(MPC.N), opens new tab&nbsp;Detroit refinery have gone on strike after months of pay- and safety-related negotiations with the company did not yield results, the company said on Wednesday. &#8220;We are fully prepared and have implemented plans to continue safely operating the facility,&#8221; a Marathon spokesperson said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[5457,2735,3150,1672],"class_list":["post-31826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-detroit","tag-refinery","tag-strikes","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31828,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31826\/revisions\/31828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}