Activists with Greenpeace USA join United Steelworkers (USW) Local 5 union members on April 29, 2022 to expand the picket line onto the waters of San Francisco Bay. Nearly 500 workers from Chevron's Richmond refinery have been on strike for weeks as they fight for a new labor contract. (Photo: (c)Nick Otto/Greenpeace)
In Act of Solidarity, Greenpeace Joins Striking Refinery Workers to 'Stop Chevron Greed'
"Fossil fuel executives and their lobbyists have maintained their dominance by pretending to have the best interest of workers and communities at heart," said one organizer. "That's why we're out here floating with fossil fuel workers."
In an act of solidarity with Chevron workers fighting for a new labor contract as executives boast of a record-breaking quarter, Greenpeace USA campaigners joined United Steelworkers Local 5 union members on Friday to expand the picket line onto the waters of San Francisco Bay.
"The only way we can break these companies' stranglehold on our wallets, our communities, and the planet is by standing together in the call for a livable future."
Nearly 500 workers from Chevron's oil refinery in Richmond, California have been on strike for more than a month in what USW Local 5 vice president B.K. White calls "a movement of working people rising up to challenge a corporation."
Chevron announced Friday that its profits surged to $6.3 billion during the first three months of 2022--four times as much as the fossil fuel giant pulled in over the same period last year, as Common Dreams reported. That prompted fresh calls from progressives for a windfall tax to prevent further price gouging and war profiteering by Big Oil and underscored one of the reasons why workers are demanding better pay.
"What's the answer to corporate greed?" Greenpeace asked on social media. "Solidarity!"
"This a message to Chevron and corporations everywhere--when workers are battling executives for their fair share, Greenpeace USA will be standing alongside," Tefere Gebre, the group's chief program officer, said in a statement. "Workers shouldn't have to go on strike to get a fair contract from greedy fossil fuel companies making record profits. They deserve to be heard."
"Fossil fuel executives and their lobbyists have maintained their dominance by pretending to have the best interest of workers and communities at heart," said Gebre. "That's why we're out here floating with fossil fuel workers. The only way we can break these companies' stranglehold on our wallets, our communities, and the planet is by standing together in the call for a livable future."
Gebre, who moved from the AFL-CIO to Greenpeace earlier this year, added that his vision "was not to exit the labor movement, but to bring the workers' movement to the climate justice movement."
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In an act of solidarity with Chevron workers fighting for a new labor contract as executives boast of a record-breaking quarter, Greenpeace USA campaigners joined United Steelworkers Local 5 union members on Friday to expand the picket line onto the waters of San Francisco Bay.
"The only way we can break these companies' stranglehold on our wallets, our communities, and the planet is by standing together in the call for a livable future."
Nearly 500 workers from Chevron's oil refinery in Richmond, California have been on strike for more than a month in what USW Local 5 vice president B.K. White calls "a movement of working people rising up to challenge a corporation."
Chevron announced Friday that its profits surged to $6.3 billion during the first three months of 2022--four times as much as the fossil fuel giant pulled in over the same period last year, as Common Dreams reported. That prompted fresh calls from progressives for a windfall tax to prevent further price gouging and war profiteering by Big Oil and underscored one of the reasons why workers are demanding better pay.
"What's the answer to corporate greed?" Greenpeace asked on social media. "Solidarity!"
"This a message to Chevron and corporations everywhere--when workers are battling executives for their fair share, Greenpeace USA will be standing alongside," Tefere Gebre, the group's chief program officer, said in a statement. "Workers shouldn't have to go on strike to get a fair contract from greedy fossil fuel companies making record profits. They deserve to be heard."
"Fossil fuel executives and their lobbyists have maintained their dominance by pretending to have the best interest of workers and communities at heart," said Gebre. "That's why we're out here floating with fossil fuel workers. The only way we can break these companies' stranglehold on our wallets, our communities, and the planet is by standing together in the call for a livable future."
Gebre, who moved from the AFL-CIO to Greenpeace earlier this year, added that his vision "was not to exit the labor movement, but to bring the workers' movement to the climate justice movement."
In an act of solidarity with Chevron workers fighting for a new labor contract as executives boast of a record-breaking quarter, Greenpeace USA campaigners joined United Steelworkers Local 5 union members on Friday to expand the picket line onto the waters of San Francisco Bay.
"The only way we can break these companies' stranglehold on our wallets, our communities, and the planet is by standing together in the call for a livable future."
Nearly 500 workers from Chevron's oil refinery in Richmond, California have been on strike for more than a month in what USW Local 5 vice president B.K. White calls "a movement of working people rising up to challenge a corporation."
Chevron announced Friday that its profits surged to $6.3 billion during the first three months of 2022--four times as much as the fossil fuel giant pulled in over the same period last year, as Common Dreams reported. That prompted fresh calls from progressives for a windfall tax to prevent further price gouging and war profiteering by Big Oil and underscored one of the reasons why workers are demanding better pay.
"What's the answer to corporate greed?" Greenpeace asked on social media. "Solidarity!"
"This a message to Chevron and corporations everywhere--when workers are battling executives for their fair share, Greenpeace USA will be standing alongside," Tefere Gebre, the group's chief program officer, said in a statement. "Workers shouldn't have to go on strike to get a fair contract from greedy fossil fuel companies making record profits. They deserve to be heard."
"Fossil fuel executives and their lobbyists have maintained their dominance by pretending to have the best interest of workers and communities at heart," said Gebre. "That's why we're out here floating with fossil fuel workers. The only way we can break these companies' stranglehold on our wallets, our communities, and the planet is by standing together in the call for a livable future."
Gebre, who moved from the AFL-CIO to Greenpeace earlier this year, added that his vision "was not to exit the labor movement, but to bring the workers' movement to the climate justice movement."