ExxonMobil made $2.7 billion in just the first three months of 2021. Rather than negotiate a fair contract with the women and men who helped make those profits, the company chose on May 1 to lockout 650 families represented by USW Local 13-243 in Beaumont, Texas.
Our skilled and experienced union members worked through hurricanes, floods and freezes to keep the refinery and blending and packaging plant operating. Now, management has thrown essential workers out on the street.