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BP Workers Join Largest US Strike in 35 Years; Outraged French Union; Wisconsin Students Protest Budget Cuts
US BP oil workers join largest nationwide strike in 35 years. The USW said on Saturday that the US refinery workers’ strike is expanding to include two additional plants. Over 1,000 workers from BP Plc’s Whiting, Indiana refinery and the company’s plant in Toledo, Ohio (a joint-venture with Husky Energy) are due to walk out shortly after midnight on Sunday. The two plants are set to join nine other refineries already on strike across the US, together accounting for about 13 percent of the country’s refining capacity.
‘Outraged’ French union urges Hollande to honor Mistral deal, 2,500 jobs at stake. The union expressed “shock and outrage,” Le Figaro reports, after Paris postponed the delivery on the Mistral helicopter carriers to Russia due to pressure from the US and EU, which imposed several waves of sanctions against Moscow after Crimea joined Russia over the Ukraine crisis.
Wisconsin Students Protest Budget Cuts. “Money for public education, not for tax cuts to corporations!” Chants rang as the UW Board of Regents walked into their meeting this morning. UW students lined the entrances of the meeting to let Regents know where they stood on Gov. Walker’s massive budget cuts to public education.
