A Chevron gas station sign is seen in Del Mar, California, April 25, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File PhotoRichmond, California, refinery voted on Saturday to ratify the latest contract offered by the company, ending a 10-week strike without achieving their goal of additional pay to counter rising health care costs, said sources familiar with the vote.
Chevron has said striking workers would return to work in the weeks following the contract's ratification. At least 60 workers had crossed the picket line and returned to the refinery before a tentative agreement was reached on Thursday.The sources said the members of Local 12-5 ratified the contract by a narrow margin on Saturday.
To make up the difference, Local 12-5 sought a 5% pay increase in addition to the pay raise in the national agreement. Chevron did not offer the local pay increase before the strike. It was not part of the ratified contract.
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