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Crown factory workers' strike ignored for 17 long months

2015-02-03 02:55:54| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

Striking Crown Metal employee David Elines prevents a bus carrying Crown Metal substitute workers from leaving for five minutes in front of the North York factory, where employees have been on strike for 17 months. When Caterpillar laid off 460 people in 2012 and shuttered their London locomotive factory, politicians of all stripes decried the blow to the province's important manufacturing sector.

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United Steelworkers continue strike at nine US oil refineries

2015-02-03 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology

The United Steelworkers union (USW) is continuing its strike at nine US oil refineries with a demand to improve safety conditions and increase annual pay.

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Oil Declines as U.S. Workers Strike Seen Cutting Refinery Demand

2015-02-02 12:52:29| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

West Texas Intermediate futures dropped as much as 3.3 percent. The United Steelworkers union, which represents employees at more than 200 U.S. refineries, terminals, pipelines and chemical plants, stopped work on Sunday at nine sites after failing to agree on a labor contract.

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Oil Declines as U.S. Workers Strike Seen Cutting Refinery Demand

2015-02-02 10:17:31| Energy - Topix.net

Futures dropped as much as 3.3 percent in New York. The United Steelworkers union, which represents employees at more than 200 U.S. refineries, terminals, pipelines and chemical plants, stopped work on Sunday at nine sites after failing to agree on a labor contract.

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Workers strike for new pact at nine U.S. oil, chemical plants

2015-02-02 06:07:55| Energy - Topix.net

Union workers took to picket lines on Sunday after strikes were called at nine U.S. refineries and chemical plants in a bid to pressure oil companies to agree to a new national contract covering workers at 63 plants. The walkouts, the first held in support of a nationwide pact since 1980, target plants that together account for about 10 percent of U.S. refining capacity.

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