Teamster members working at Marathon Petroleum's Detroit refinery have voted to ratify a seven-year collective bargaining agreement, three months after workers walked off the job, the union said on Sunday, in a post on X.
Over 200 Teamsters at Marathon's Detroit refinery had called for the strike on Sept. 4 after months of pay and safety-related negotiations and mediations with the refiner yielded no results. The prior contract expired in January 2024.
Marathon representatives and the Teamsters had several negotiating sessions under a federal mediator since workers went on strike.
The 140,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Detroit refinery is one of Marathon's 13 refineries with approximately 2.9 million bpd of crude oil refining capacity.
