2021 St. Paul Park refinery strike

2021 St. Paul Park refinery strike
2021 St. Paul Park refinery strike
Date	January 21 – July 1, 2021; (5 months, 1 week and 3 days)
Location	St. Paul Park, Minnesota, United States
Goals	New labor contract with protections against outsourcing and hiring of subcontractors
Methods	Strike action; Boycott;
Resulted in	Lockout; New labor contracts with guarantees against outsourcing and hiring of subcontractors;
Parties
Marathon Petroleum	International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 120

The 2021 St. Paul Park refinery strike was a labor dispute in St. Paul Park, Minnesota, United States. The strike, involving approximately 200 workers, took place at an oil refinery owned by Marathon Petroleum and began on January 21, 2021, with members of Local 120 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters alleging unfair labor practices and unsafe working conditions. According to union representatives, the strike was originally intended to last for one day, but that the company performed a lockout on the workers. While the company denies that the dispute is a lockout, multiple sources, including the Star Tribune and the news agency Reuters, describe the dispute as a lockout.