(Reuters) -Teamsters members working at Marathon Petroleum’s Detroit refinery have voted to ratify a seven-year collective bargaining settlement, the corporate and the union stated on Sunday, three months after employees walked off the job.
“The method to securely welcome our workers again to the refinery is already in progress,” the Findlay, Ohio-based firm stated.
Over 200 Teamsters at Marathon’s Detroit refinery had referred to as for the strike on Sept. 4 after months of pay and safety-related negotiations and mediations with the refiner yielded no outcomes. Their earlier contract expired in January this 12 months.
Marathon representatives and Teamsters had a number of negotiating classes underneath a federal mediator since employees went on strike.
The 140,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Detroit refinery is one in every of Marathon’s 13 refineries with roughly 2.9 million bpd of crude oil refining capability.
(Reporting by Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru, modifying by Deepa Babington and Diane Craft)
