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Eight hundred BP refinery workers in Whiting, Indiana, are locked out with no pay and no return date after rejecting a contract they say slashes wages, cuts jobs, and expands AI use. BP counters that its terms are standard and claims the lockout ensures safety, citing union strike rules as the reason. For families like Donald Skalka’s — all three generations employed there — the shutdown means financial ruin, forcing some to take temp jobs or rely on community aid. Union leaders suspect “Big Oil” is using this as a broader strategy to erode union power, pointing to a similar Exxon lockout and a key BP hire from that case. Despite the hardship, workers remain defiant, turning their union hall into a support hub and picketing daily, determined to protect their livelihoods and the future of labor in oil refining.

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