BP, Marathon, and Phillips 66 have locked out unionized refinery workers amid record oil profits. Joe Allen asks why these labor disputes have received little national attention ahead of the midterm elections.
BP, Marathon, and Phillips 66 have locked out unionized refinery workers amid record oil profits. Joe Allen asks why these labor disputes have received little national attention ahead of the midterm elections.
9–11 began for me with the phone ringing off the hook. I stumbled to the phone and listened to my voicemail. It was my mother calling. “Joey, something terrible has happened. Turn on the TV.” My mother lived in our hometown of Stoughton, Massachusetts and was watching the morning news programs when…
Crockett, California is located on the Carquinez Strait, a forty-minute drive from Oakland, and popularly known as “Sugartown.” This small, unincorporated town of thirty-two hundred residents is the longtime home of the California and Hawaii Sugar (C&H) refinery, one of the last cane sugar processo…
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