Vol.62/No.15           April 20, 1998 
 
 
Crown oilworkers continue fight  
Some of the 200 refinery workers who continue their weekly picket at Crown Central Petroleum outside of Houston. Two years ago Crown locked out 252 workers belonging to the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers union Local 4-227, when negotiations deadlocked over management's insistence on gutting seniority and replacing union workers with temporary contract labor. Last January Crown filed a civil lawsuit against 14 operators, a union official, and the local union, charging them with more than 400 acts of sabotage and conspiracy to commit sabotage. The unionists have initiated open meetings to plan a public defense of these workers and their union.  
 
 
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