Contract dispute at Beaumont refinery ends, but questions about union's future remain
It took ExxonMobil and the United Steelworkers 10 months to agree on a contract for workers at a refinery in Beaumont. Now, the facility’s employees are back to work. But the contract conflict left big questions about the future of the union.
Justin Miller, politics and government reporter for the Texas Observer, spoke to Texas Standard about the lockout and its impact on the labor movement in Texas.
Texas Standard: I think the headline the Texas Observers was, ‘The Battle of Beaumont.’ Was it really that contentious? Why?
Yeah, this was one of the biggest fights we’ve seen in the Gulf Coast refineries between labor and the companies in several decades.
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