Texas ExxonMobil strikers are fighting for all oil workers

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

DALLAS — Members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243 have maintained their picket lines at the ExxonMobil Refinery and Lubricant Blending and Packaging Plant in Beaumont, Texas, since being locked out over five months ago. After the 650 union members refused…


Texas refinery workers fight ExxonMobil bosses’ lockout

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

DALLAS — Some 650 oil workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243, have been locked out of their jobs at the ExxonMobil Refinery and Lubricant Blending and Packaging plant in Beaumont, Texas, for over three months. They’ve maintained picket lines…


Refinery workers fight ExxonMobil lockout

Back union fight for safety, job security, seniority!
Vol. 85/No. 23 - June 14, 2021
Steelworkers locked out by ExxonMobil protest outside corporate headquarters in Irving, Texas, May 26. “The company is trying to bust the union,” Local President Darrell Kyle said.

BEAUMONT, Texas — Over 650 members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243 are picketing 24/7 at the ExxonMobil Refinery and Lubricant Blending and Packaging plant here since they were locked out by the bosses May 1. They’re standing up to the…


Texas refinery workers fight lockout by ExxonMobil

Vol. 85/No. 19 - May 17, 2021

DALLAS — More than 650 members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243 were locked out May 1 by ExxonMobil bosses at their refinery in Beaumont, Texas. Negotiations had begun in January for a new contract, but company officials walked workers out…


Autoworkers strike Prysmian plant in Texas over pay, hours

Vol. 85/No. 18 - May 10, 2021

SCOTTSVILLE, Texas — “Strike until it’s right!” members of United Auto Workers Local 3057 chant on the picket line in front of the gate of Prysmian Group in East Texas. Over 200 UAW members went on strike March 26 after…


SWP in Amarillo: Asarco strike lessons, back labor fights today

Vol. 85/No. 15 - April 19, 2021
In Amarillo, Texas, April 1, roofer Marcos Mendoza, left, told Gerardo Sánchez, SWP candidate for Dallas City Council, that bosses take advantage of undocumented workers to pay them lower wages. SWP fights for amnesty for all immigrant workers in the U.S., Sánchez said.

AMARILLO, Texas — Gerardo Sánchez, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas City Council, and a team of campaign supporters spoke with a wide range of workers during a campaign visit here March 31 to April 1. “Workers in Dallas, in…



Bosses’ profit drive at heart of capitalist catastrophe in Texas

Vol. 85/No. 9 - March 8, 2021
In act of working-class solidarity, Jessica Villa-Gomez, owner of Boombox Taco, has given out thousands of tacos to working people in Houston who have been without electricity for days.

DALLAS — An unusual major winter storm beginning Feb. 12 spread snowfall and damaging ice here, all across Texas, in other parts of the South and Midwest, and in northern Mexico. Snow blanketed 80% of Texas, from Dallas to Brownsville…


Biden says he’ll continue Trump policy, keeps Mexico border shut

Vol. 85/No. 8 - March 1, 2021
Gerardo Sánchez, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas City Council, left, talks to Arnulfo Alvarez Jan. 25. “SWP campaign fights for amnesty for all 11 million undocumented immigrants who live and work in the U.S.,” Sánchez said in a statement Feb. 15.

DALLAS — White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced Feb. 10 that the Joseph Biden administration will continue to use a COVID-19 order from President Donald Trump’s administration to immediately expel would-be immigrants who cross the border from Mexico. “The…


Socialist Workers Party files for ballot in Dallas

Vol. 85/No. 7 - February 22, 2021
Socialist Workers Party files for ballot in Dallas

DALLAS — Gerardo Sánchez, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for City Council here, submits petitions signed by 222 people — seven times more than the 30 signatures required — to city election manager Parris Long Feb. 10 to be on…