https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/business/article/ExxonMobil-makes-first-amended-offer-since-lockout-16496254.php
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It is good to see this kind of respect for the workers.
Especially on the Layoff board.
PTs of the world - Unite! Take the Ms to the table.
And us grunts will carry on.
maybe
EM believes in states rights and the right to work (for free).
Did EM create the state where Beaumont resides, or the other way around?
The former, my ex says.
Seems like they are running out of people or patience to backfill the union workers
Thanks for quoting - couldn't see past the 'local news' paywall.
I guess this is pwogwess.
EM certainly having to choke back some anti-union vomit.
Still hurling it out there though.
ExxonMobil has announced that it has made a new, amended offer to the USW Local 13-243 for the first time since the lockout of over 620 workers began almost six months ago, but has set a timeline for the union to accept.
On Wednesday, the company announced that its bargaining representatives gave the union a new offer at its Monday meeting, which it said contained changes that the union previously expressed interest in.
Both parties have met multiple times a month since the lockout began in May, but the company hasn’t adjusted its offers or accepted any of the the union’s multiple requests until now.
“After extensive review and discussion with the Union, the Company has decided to amend its offer,” representatives for the company wrote in a statement. “Over the last several months, the Union has made clear their interest in an offer which expands support for security and seniority.”
The company says additional language was included that added seniority protection for employees who move between the refinery and lucubration operations, including seniority-honored vacation selections and protection in the case of layoffs. It also includes increased job security and protection for employees in materials and business support, according to the company.
The offer would also combine promotion paths for package and warehouse workers at the blending and packaging plant, making a more cohesive level of wage increases and career development.
During the lockout and the months of negotiations leading up to it, the company has been seeking the ability to more effectively cross-train workers, cut-down on redundancies and have more flexibility with staffing shifts, but most of it’s efforts to reach those goals have alarmed union leaders.
The union has previously said that provisions in the contract that might end senior operator positions and interrupt the chain of seniority threaten safety and the hard-fought benefits of the union that members have been working toward for decades.
The company said its offer still includes a six year term of the contract, pay raises for the majority of employees, previously included benefits such as additional vacation protection, increased paid parental time off and National Oil Bargaining Pattern (NOBP) side-letters, including the job security letter which provides protection from layoff.
The USW international organization has been preparing for national bargaining for the past few months, but the last contract between the Beaumont local union and ExxonMobil put the complex on a different schedule.
While it has started placing more things on the table, ExxonMobil said it would withdraw parts of its offer if it couldn’t ratify the offer by Nov. 1, including the $500 bonus, 2021 raises and arbitration for employee resignations.
The company plans on ending the lockout and bringing employees back into the complex only after members have voted and ratified an offer.