News - Oil Industry
Health & Safety to be Number One Issue in National Bargaining Talks WASHINGTON, Nov.
On the one year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that took the lives of 11 men and devastated the livelihoods of many residents of coastal Louisiana, it's difficult to put the complicated relationship between people and oil into perspective.
BEAUMONT, Texas, July 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Steelworkers (USW) Vice President Gary Beevers, who heads the union's oil sector, sent a request to the oil industry to re-open the National Oil Bargaining pattern agreement and negotiate health and safety provisions. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) "I've asked the industry to sit down and have an honest discussion about handling safety effectively," said Beevers.