Marathon Martinez USW Workers on Strike After Contract Impasse

Marathon Petroleum Corp. said it is now operating its Marathon Martinez Renewables plant in California with trained employees after members of United Steelworkers Local 5 began a strike Monday.

• “A safe and orderly handover to trained and qualified Marathon employees has been completed”: spokesman Jamal Kheiry
• Marathon said the approximately 115 hourly union workers are on an economic strike in support of the union’s bargaining proposals. The union has called it an unfair labor practices strike
• Marathon and the union have been in collective bargaining to reach a new labor agreement; the prior work contract expired Jan. 31
• Martinez Renewables ...