Inside the nearly five-month labor lockout at BP's Whiting refinery
<p><i>This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and </i><a class="Link" href="http://grist.org/" target="_blank" ><i>Grist</i></a><i>, a nonprofit environmental media organization.</i></p><p>Jessica Skalka, 37, rounded the corner of a homemade bar in her dad’s garage, passing a framed collage of cutout newspaper clips marking the end of the 99-day strike at BP’s Whiting, Indiana, refinery in 2015. A row of championship banners for the Chicago Cubs, Bears and White Sox hung high across one wall, while a light-up “Donnie’s Man Cave” sign glowed nearby.</p><p>She picked up an empty blue-and-orange Bears-themed bucket from the counter, shook it, and asked, “No candy today?”</p><p>“Yeah, well, I’m not working right now,” said Donald Skalka, 62, from across the garage.</p><p>Until mid-March, father and daughter worked at BP’s sprawling plant in Whiting, Indiana, the largest inland oil refinery in North America.</p><p>There, Donald had spent nearly two decades working his way up to a job in the control room, where he monitored the refinery’s operations from behind a bank of screens.
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<p><i>This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and </i><a class="Link" href="http://grist.org/" target="_blank" ><i>Grist</i></a><i>, a nonprofit environmental media organization.</i></p><p>Jessica Skalka, 37, rounded the corner of a homemade bar in her dad’s garage, passing a framed collage of cutout newspaper clips marking the end of the 99-day strike at BP’s Whiting, Indiana, refinery in 2015. A row of championship banners for the Chicago Cubs, Bears and White Sox hung high across one wall, while a light-up “Donnie’s Man Cave” sign glowed nearby.</p><p>She picked up an empty blue-and-orange Bears-themed bucket from the counter, shook it, and asked, “No candy today?”</p><p>“Yeah, well, I’m not working right now,” said Donald Skalka, 62, from across the garage.</p><p>Until mid-March, father and daughter worked at BP’s sprawling plant in Whiting, Indiana, the largest inland oil refinery in North America.</p><p>There, Donald had spent nearly two decades working his way up to a job in the control room, where he monitored the refinery’s operations from behind a bank of screens. The plant processed approximately 440,000 barrels of crude oil every day, and Donald kept the electricity and steam-generating machinery at the plant running. Donald’s son worked there, too, as did Jessica.
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- <p><i>This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and </i><a class="Link" href="http://grist.org/" target="_blank" ><i>Grist</i></a><i>, a nonprofit environmental media organization.</i></p><p>Jessica Skalka, 37, rounded the corner of a homemade bar in her dad’s garage, passing a framed collage of cutout newspaper clips marking the end of the 99-day strike at BP’s Whiting, Indiana, refinery in 2015. A row of championship banners for the Chicago Cubs, Bears and White Sox hung high across one wall, while a light-up “Donnie’s Man Cave” sign glowed nearby.</p><p>She picked up an empty blue-and-orange Bears-themed bucket from the counter, shook it, and asked, “No candy today?”</p><p>“Yeah, well, I’m not working right now,” said Donald Skalka, 62, from across the garage.</p><p>Until mid-March, father and daughter worked at BP’s sprawling plant in Whiting, Indiana, the largest inland oil refinery in North America.</p><p>There, Donald had spent nearly two decades working his way up to a job in the control room, where he monitored the refinery’s operations from behind a bank of screens.
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Inside the nearly five-month labor lockout at BP's Whiting refinery
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