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WHITING, Indiana \u2013 Elizabeth Pi\u00f1a has been at her union hall since 4 a.m., checking on picketers, organizing the food pantry, and chatting with her coworkers. She is wearing a black T-shirt and sitting behind a table filled with schedules and stickers that say \u201cend the lockout.\u201d She hasn\u2019t \u201chad much of a summer,\u201d she tells me; it\u2019s been dominated by the early-morning shift, Monday through Friday. When I ask her if she is tired, she says, \u201cNope. We\u2019re just starting.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This is a routine that more than 800 workers didn\u2019t choose. British Petroleum, one of the ten largest oil and gas companies on Earth, kicked out its workforce at this crude oil refinery, which at its peak produces 440,000 barrels a day, on March 19. The previous contract expired in January, and United Steelworkers Local 7-1 declined management proposals that workers say would existentially threaten the local. The union has been locked out for 126 days, and it says it is fighting for its survival against an employer that wants to cut pay and jobs, undermine workers\u2019 ability to strike, and tear the local away from national bargaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The lockout is illegal, the union says. By late May, United Steelworkers (USW) had filed 15 unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging that the company is refusing to bargain in good faith and using threats, coercive statements, and surveillance.<\/p>\n

The fight has become a test of endurance. On one side are workers who are not receiving the equivalent of strike pay (though members can ask for help from an assistance fund financed by USW). On the other side is an oil company that brought in $189.2 billion in revenue in 2025, and counts among its activist shareholders Elliott Investment Management, run by Paul Singer, a prominent Trump supporter for slashing jobs and subcontracting labor. The company is sending in replacement workers, referred to derisively by workers as \u201cscabs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cClearly they didn\u2019t lock us out with the intent to reach a deal anytime soon, or to try to find something that was good for both parties,\u201d Eric Schultz, the president of USW Local 7-1, tells me at the union hall. \u201cThey locked us out with their intent to starve us out. Obviously you don\u2019t starve people out in a month, you don\u2019t starve them out in two months. This is a long game for them, and we\u2019re prepared for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reference to starving is not a metaphor. Numerous people I met told me it has been difficult to make ends meet. Many who applied are now getting unemployment, but that comes to less than $400 a week, and some workers with large families to feed are relying on donations to the food pantry. Michelle O\u2019Shaughnessy, a locked-out operator who coordinates food, transportation, and the union hall schedule, tells me that several union members have had babies during the lockout, so she has been stocking the pantry with diapers and formula, which families have been coming to pick up.<\/p>\n

Joe Trevino is standing<\/strong> on the side of a busy road in front of a tank field, holding a picket sign that says \u201cIllegal Lockout\u201d as a baseball cap and sunglasses shade his face from the sun. He works as a process operator, a job he describes as \u201clabor intensive,\u201d and has been at the refinery for 19 years. In June, his house was destroyed by a tornado. \u201cI\u2019m living in a hotel right now,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m dealing with all that stuff, plus not having a paycheck come in, and nobody from this company has reached out to me to see if I\u2019m okay, to check on my well-being. Nothing.\u201d (It\u2019s a tragic reality that companies like BP are also driving climate change, which causes more powerful tornadoes and larger clusters of them.)<\/p>\n

Trevino has been doing regular shifts at the picket line, despite the personal tragedy. He started receiving unemployment in late May, he says, but it\u2019s under $400 a week. \u201cThings were tight before, now they\u2019re even tighter\u2026 I saved up, so I had a nice chunk of change going into this, but that is only going to last me so long, especially with everything else I got going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Workers say BP is trying to use the bargaining process to take away their power as a union. The company wants what it calls an \u201cindustrial peace clause,\u201d which would require 150 days\u2019 notice before a strike or lockout following contract expiration, a dramatic increase from the current 24-hour notice. Workers worry that such a long delay would allow the company to undermine a work stoppage before it begins, and would limit workers\u2019 ability to urgently strike when needed. Without the full power of the strike, workers have little leverage to protect their rights and defend the bargaining unit, union members told me.<\/p>\n

The inclusion of management rights provisions throughout the contract, meanwhile, was a giant red flag. \u201cYou really have to understand the contract language, but they\u2019ve done a lot of disclaimers about how they\u2019ll hold the sole exclusive right to make modifications in the future,\u201d Schultz says.<\/p>\n

USW members in oil and gas do pattern bargaining, which is when the union bargains with the oil and gas industry through a single employer, which sets the pattern on national issues, like wages, health, and safety. (The employer doing the bargaining can change from cycle to cycle.) It\u2019s an approach to bargaining that lets union members at different companies band together, giving them more leverage and unity against multi-billion-dollar companies. Alongside national contracts, workers also bargain at the local level over location-specific issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Local 7-1 represents the last unionized BP refinery in the United States, and the only BP refinery involved in pattern bargaining, though smaller groups of BP pipeline workers adhere to some aspects of pattern bargaining. But according to the union, from the outset of this cycle, the company said it was refusing to recognize pattern bargaining, and wanted a contract that is six years long, instead of four, which would get workers off the plan. The local views the attempt as an effort to isolate them, and further strip the union of its power.<\/p>\n

In an email to Workday Magazine and the Prospect<\/em>, BP spokesperson Cesar Rodriguez said the company is pursuing \u201cmodernized job structures, training, and upskilling.\u201d But workers say this is just code for greater disposability and degraded conditions, and they declare a new pay progression would make it easier for BP to fire people and harder for workers to get to the highest rates of pay. They\u2019re also concerned about the proposed loss of dozens of jobs from the bargaining unit. (At one point, the company proposed cutting 200 jobs, or a quarter of the bargaining unit, according to Schultz.)<\/p>\n

Rodriguez emphasized BP\u2019s support for a 13 percent pay increase over four years. But according to an email from the USW 7-1 board of directors to members on May 22, base wages would be reduced for most classifications of workers, and the raises would not kick in until the base rate catches up to the current wage.<\/p>\n

Under the company\u2019s proposal, Brian, a fifth year operator who asked me to use only his first name to protect his privacy, would be reclassified as an operating tech 3, a change that would come with a base wage cut of $1.82 per hour, according to a USW analysis. \u201cThey are advertising that we would see increases, but it is not based on what our current wages are, so it\u2019s very misleading,\u201d Brian told me.<\/p>\n

BP is backing \u201ca $2,500 ratification bonus and additional $5,000 to $7,500 payments for employees in certain job classifications,\u201d Rodriguez told me. But the USW 7-1 board of directors said that \u201cthey do not explain what they want in exchange for that payment \u2026 Temporary payment does not make up for permanent wage cuts, lost jobs, reduced rights, and weakened seniority protections.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On March 2<\/strong>, management presented the local with their \u201clast, best, and final offer,\u201d and the union membership voted it down. A revised settlement was offered the next day, but it, too, was rejected. On March 17, the union gave a counteroffer. \u201cJust four hours later, the company rejected our counterproposal, issued notice of the cancellation of rolling extensions, and a notice of intent to lock us out of our jobs, effective at midnight on March 18,\u201d according to USW.<\/p>\n

Pi\u00f1a says that when she showed up for work on March 18, \u201cWe were told we were gonna get locked out. Everyone had to hurry up, get their stuff together, whatever personal stuff they could carry with them. If you couldn\u2019t carry out your personal stuff, then you left it behind.\u201d The lockout officially began at midnight on March 19, she says. \u201cThey had replacement workers with allegedly training hours, but you could tell in their faces they didn\u2019t know what they were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Workers are not paid for picketing, yet they have been showing up four months after the lockout began. One electrician who was severely burned over 90 percent of his body while working at the refinery several years ago has been on the picket lines regularly, three different people told me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In many cases, picketing is a family affair. I met Lety Tirado while she held a picket sign next to a giant inflatable \u201cScabby the rat\u201d perched in front of a tank field. She doesn\u2019t work at the refinery, but her husband, Pedro Tirado, has for 19 years. \u201cWe were here for the 2015 strike, and now we\u2019re here for the lockout this year,\u201d she says, speaking loudly so that I can hear her over the hum of the busy road.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of their kids graduated from high school during the lockout, and it was tough to throw a party amid financial stress. \u201cIt definitely changes your perspective,\u201d she says. \u201cAm I going on a random Thursday to the movies? Probably not. Things that you\u2019re accustomed to doing with your kids, you\u2019re like, \u2018I don\u2019t think I\u2019m spending that 100 bucks there.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Workers are acutely aware that part of the battle is to plan for the inevitable grinding down of one\u2019s body. \u201cWhat people need to understand is, unfortunately, this type of job that we have, it is in a time frame,\u201d Pi\u00f1a, 34, says. \u201cPeople do develop health issues in there, so the good money we make is eventually used on medical. Just like the equipment in there breaks down, we do too.\u201d That only heightens the need to make the most of bargaining for decent wages.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere else are you going to climb 50 or 60 feet up in the air with a hose? Where else are you going to be breathing under a [self-contained breathing apparatus] for half an hour or an hour, or while doing other physical activity?\u201d Pi\u00f1a says.<\/p>\n

The mood at the union hall is one of a community hunkering down for a long fight. When I asked Schultz whether he thinks the company is trying to take advantage of the Trump National Labor Relations Board in order to break the union\u2019s power for good, he tells me, \u201cI think the stars aligned, but I think this plan was put in place well before Trump was elected.\u201d Jordan Marcks, a management-side labor relations professional, previously played a role in overseeing the 10-month lockout of Exxon workers in Beaumont, Texas in 2021 and 2022, according to USW. Workers told me that Marcks is now BP\u2019s \u201cpeople and culture, employee and industrial relations director for the Americas,\u201d and sat on BP\u2019s side of the bargaining table for a few sessions.<\/p>\n

BP did not respond by deadline to a request to comment on the role of Marcks, but the company did issue a general statement, via its spokesperson Rodriguez. \u201cWe\u2019ve repeatedly asked union leadership to come back to the negotiating table so discussions can continue,\u201d Rodriguez told me over email. \u201cThe company remains ready and willing to keep talking through the issues that separate the parties and bargain in good faith to reach an agreement. Unfortunately, the union president or elected representatives\u2019 continued lack of response to meeting requests is slowing down constructive dialogue on these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

But USW District 7 Director Mike Millsap told me that the \u201cbargaining team has met with British Petroleum management dozens of times, only for the company to push the same proposals that eliminate local jobs, force hundreds of workers to take pay freezes and cuts, and break down bargaining and seniority rights that generations of union members fought for. More than 98 percent of our members rejected those concessions. Yet the company hasn\u2019t meaningfully moved or considered our proposals. We want to engage in real, good-faith negotiations, not more PR theater.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are signs of public support for the workers. The Lake County Council passed a resolution on July 14, in a 6-0 vote, calling on BP to end the lockout and resume negotiations in good faith. Several other nearby municipalities, including Schererville, have passed resolutions that were similarly supportive of the workers. The City of Hammond recently rejected British Petroleum\u2019s sponsorship of its 2026 Festival of the Lakes, with the mayor saying it \u201ccertainly sends the wrong message.\u201d Other unions have visited the local and walked the picket lines, among them the Chicago Teachers Union.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I asked Carolina Ramsey, a representative for USW 7-1\u00a0 and a worker at a lab in the Whiting facility, what the union\u2019s strategy is to win against the company. \u201cWe are basically just trying to continue on the support from the community and other locals,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s what helps out all of our members is that support system\u2014seeing that other people are coming and backing us, so that they\u2019re not going to be demoralized.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the personal level, survival tactics vary from person to person. Pi\u00f1a\u2019s 16-year-old son \u201cdoesn\u2019t ask me for anything,\u201d she says. \u201cAs soon as we got locked out, I told him this is what it is, and he understood. So he\u2019s scraping by, too, and not doing fun stuff, and he\u2019s not having any summer at all. But he already knows how life is, and he understands.\u201d<\/p>\n

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