The narrative has changed to unsafe working conditions.
Via KRTV
Roughly 70 union workers and their families arrived outside ConocoPhillips on 1st Avenue South in Billings Saturday afternoon in an informational picket for solidarity.
Workers held signs saying “Solidarity is Strength” and “Understaffing does not equal Safe Refineries.”
The demonstration was a local effort to show solidarity to the nationwide effort for better working conditions.
President of the local group for Phillips 66 with United Steel Workers Wade Johnson said its also a display of community. “A safe community is important to the guys who work at this plant, it always has been. We take that very seriously,” Johnson said. “And understaffing is a serious threat to community and the safety of the community.” […]
Johnson said current negotiations show it could be a long battle. There are now 11 facilities on strike across the nation after two more — in Ohio and Indiana — went offline on Friday night.
“We don’t know yet what our role is going to be in this,” Johnson said.
Johnson said 210 union workers work at the ConocoPhillips plant.