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Striking Oil Workers Protest Catsimatidis for Underpaying Essential Workers
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NEW YORK, May 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Teamsters and striking oil workers rallied outside of billionaire John Catsimatidis Manhattan offices today in protest of the low wages paid to essential workers at Catsimatidis United Metro Energy. Workers have been on strike since April 19. We were essential enough to report to work through the pandemic, but not essential enough for a raise and better health and retirement benefits, said Andre Soleyn, a Terminal Operator at United Metro Energy. We are on strike for a better future for our families.
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Since mid-April, the United Metro Energy facility in Brooklyn has had a squadron of oil workers stationed outside alternating shifts so that men are there 24 hours, seven days a week striking for better pay and benefits from the company’s owner: grocery store billionaire, twice-failed mayoral candidate, and right-wing shock jock John Catsimatidis.
The workers, a coalition of mechanics, terminal operators, and service technicians, elected to go on strike on April 19, following years of delayed negotiations on a union contract, which they voted to form back in 2018. “We are out there every single day, around the clock,” said Assaf John, who has been working as a service technician at the company for 12 years. “I’m here until 3 o’clock, then we have guys coming in at 3 p.m., and some who
Brooklyn Oil Workers Hope Strike Puts Heat on Billionaire Boss Catsimatidis
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Two dozen workers at a Brooklyn-based oil company are on strike to demand salary increases and better benefits from the firm’s billionaire owner: supermarket mogul, talk radio station owner and former GOP mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis.
Terminal operators, fleet mechanics and service technicians formed a picket line outside the fuel facility in Greenpoint on April 19, after more than two years of negotiations between United Metro Energy and Teamsters Local 553 failed to produce a contract agreement.
The strikers, who note Catsimatidis has declared his intention to enlist some “replacement” workers, have manned the picket line around the clock ever since.
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