** FILE ** A sign marks the entrance of the secluded Exxon Mobil cooperate headquarters in Irving, Texas, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003. Exxon Mobil is in the second position on the Fortune 100 list of top U.S. companies. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
LM OTERO, STF / APUnion workers from the Beaumont ExxonMobil refinery are planning to demonstrate outside the company’s Irving headquarters during its shareholder’s meeting Wednesday in protest of the almost month-long lockout.
The busload of Beaumont workers expects to arrive in Irving at 8:30 a.m. and will be joined by union members from ExxonMobil’s Baytown facility and Dallas-area union activists, according to USW.
Hourly workers from the refinery and blending and packaging plant have been locked out of the downtown complex since May 1 after the company and USW failed to meet a contract agreement.
Negotiations have been ongoing since January.
The union has said it filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board over what it has called the company’s “serious unlawful actions.”
The union has also planned to have a proxy-holding delegate attend the virtual meeting to ask questions on behalf of impacted workers.
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