United Steelworkers rejects Marathon’s recent contract terms for US refinery staff

The United Steelworkers union rejected at midnight Feb. 1 the most recent contract terms for refinery workers put forth by Marathon Petroleum, the union said in a Feb. 1 statement. “The United Steelworkers union (USW) announced today that it rejected Marathon Petroleum’s most recent proposal for a pattern settlement on wages, benefits and working conditions for approximately 30,000 USW members…