Marathon Petroleum turns down union's offer
Source: Houston Chronicle
Refinery is one of last where workers on strike
By L.M. Sixel
Marathon's Galveston Bay Refinery rejected a counterproposal from the United Steelworkers earlier this week, refinery manager Ray Brooks said in an open letter to employees.
The company and union have been exchanging offers and questions as the refinery remains one of the last on strike in the nation. On April 8, Marathon Petroleum Corp. issued its "last, best and final" contract offer to resolve lingering local issues. That measure was rejected by union leaders and never put to a unionwide membership vote.
Details of the latest union counteroffer were not available.
"We do not believe this demonstrates good faith bargaining by the USW and does not support an effort to get a settlement and return employees to work who have been off for nearly three months," Brooks said in his letter.
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United Steel Workers Union members on strike from Marathon Petroleum's Galveston Bay refinery hold a rally at the CERAweek conference at the Hilton Americas-Houston, Tuesday April 21, 2015. The United Steel Workers Union has been on a nation wide strike since February of this year.
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Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)
The constitutional responsibility of a free press is to report on national issues. A strike that affected infrastructure as critical as oil refineries would obviously be reported on continuously. There has been virtually no reporting on an oil workers strike in the national press. Therefore, there is no oil workers strike. 
