Teamsters Local 553 had represented just three drivers at the facility, but other United Metro Energy workers in their second year striking are also fighting for a contract.
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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.