Fossil fuel layoff: The economic and employment effects of a refinery closure on workers in the Bay Area

Fossil fuel layoff: The economic and employment effects of a refinery closure on workers in the Bay Area The economic FOSSIL FUEL and employment LAYOFF effects of a refinery closure on workers in the Bay Area April 2023 Study and report prepared for the University of California, Berkeley Labor Center by Virginia Parks, PhD Ian Baran Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy University of Cali. [...] Fossil fuel layoff: The economic and employment effects of a refinery closure on workers in the Bay Area 7 The aim of this study is to capture and analyze the post-layoff experiences of workers at the Marathon refinery in the Bay Area. [...] The next largest concentration of Fossil fuel layoff: The economic and employment effects of a refinery closure on workers in the Bay Area 16 union jobs was in the utility sector: 24% of workers who found union jobs were employed in this sector. [...] Why couldn’t an outside entity, such as the union or the state, vouch for their skills? For that matter, why couldn’t the refinery owner do so? Why couldn’t workers direct employers to a website that described their skills and range of tasks carried out at the refinery? Why couldn’t workers apply for a certification for their job class at the refinery, issued by the employer, the union, or the sta. [...] Workers repeatedly found themselves explaining for employers the range of the magnitude of what the complex tasks they had carried out at the refinery or the layoff meant in their lives: complexity of the decisions they made, many with lives at stake.