BP’s Whiting Refinery USW Workers Authorize Potential Strike

About a quarter of the workers typically stationed at BP Plc’s Whiting, Indiana, refinery are preparing for a strike or lockout, in a move that has the potential to disrupt fuel supplies in the US Midwest.

More than 800 workers at the site are members of United Steelworkers, and 98% of them have voted to authorize a strike, the union said in a statement on Thursday, adding that there has been no progress in negotiations with the oil company.

Whiting, the US’s largest inland refinery, has the capacity to process some 440,000 barrels of crude oil per day ...