Striking oil workers and Shell have reached
a tentative deal:
The proposed deal includes annual wage increases and maintains the cost-sharing ratio of the union’s current health-care plan, the United Steelworkers said in a statement on Thursday. It also contains language addressing the USW’s concerns about worker fatigue and contractors performing routine maintenance at oil refineries.
The accord could end a strike at U.S. plants that began on Feb. 1 and has since spread to sites that account for almost 20 percent of the country’s total refining capacity.