"Oil Refinery Strike Spreads Across US"

"An oil refinery strike continues to spread across California, Texas, and elsewhere across the US. It is now the largest US oil refinery strike in nearly 35 years."

"Fifteen refineries in the United States are now the targets of a strike by the United Steelworkers (USW) after the union and the principal management negotiator, Shell Oil Co., recessed without reported progress on worker health and safety issues at the facilities. No new talks were immediately scheduled.

Members of the USW work at more than 200 US oil terminals and pipelines as well as refineries and chemical plants. They began the strike at nine oil refineries and chemical plants on Feb. 1 after negotiations with the US arm of Royal Dutch Shell failed to produce a three-year agreement covering 30,000 hourly workers."

Andy Tully of OilPrice.com reports for the Christian Science Monitor February 24, 2015.