Pledge your solidarity with Locked-Out Steelworkers at ExxonMobil

Thanks to our friend Holly Erwin for sending us this.

Over the past year, ExxonMobil was perfectly willing to tell our Steelworker siblings at Local 13-243 they were essential as they worked through the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, floods and an unprecedented freeze.

Now, ExxonMobil is rewarding that hard work and sacrifice by forcing them off their jobs.

On May 1, the company locked out more than 650 Steelworkers at their Beaumont, Texas refinery and their blending and packaging plant to force the workers to accept a proposal which included major changes impacting members’ safety, security and seniority.

It’s deeply disappointing that ExxonMobil would take such a drastic step and keep its dedicated workforce off the job when our only goal throughout this whole process has been to bargain a fair agreement.

Our brothers and sisters deserve to stay safe on the job. Having skilled, experienced workers operating the facility keeps communities safe.

Sign our pledge to join us in urging the company to end its unfair labor practice lock out immediately and come back to the bargaining table so the two sides could continue negotiating.