Both he and his son contracted the same form of cancer, but they are better able to deal with it and get the right medical care. “What good is a job going to do you if you’re dying? I know a guy who has retired (from Marathon) he got his son on. “I would not trade off the health of the people here for any job at all,” Taylor said. We’re always trying to find out what percentage of the population that has been impacted by them the most are they employing.” We’ve been fighting with (Marathon) as well as with DuPont/Denka to give us the statistics to let us know - since they brag about all the jobs. “There’s no access to anything about the demographics of employees.

“All these companies, they guard their personnel records with their lives,” Taylor said. John that boast about job creation provide evidence. Taylor lives closer to the Denka plant (formerly Dupont) than to Marathon and mostly blames that plant for his family’s poor health, but he says none of the companies in St. John developed an autoimmune disease that only 1 in 5 million people get. His daughter also left because, according to Taylor, she and three other Black women in St. When Taylor’s wife was diagnosed with cancer, he moved her out of state. John, made it clear in a Thursday phone interview that no number of jobs justifies people breathing air that’s killing them. Robert Taylor, the 80-year-old leader of Concerned Citizens of St. Marathon Petroleum cut nearly 2,000 jobs – and reaped $2.1B in pandemic benefits James Parish - we are told to pipe down lest we chase away potential jobs. The mere promise of jobs is enough to make state officials genuflect before the companies offering them.Įven when a company says up front it’s going to double the amount of pollution - consider Formosa’s plan to emit 800 tons of toxic air pollution each year in St. “Understanding the benefits that Marathon received to presumably stimulate them into maintaining full employment,” one of the laid-off workers told reporter Chris Staudinger, “it’s frustrating to have still been chopped.”īut in Louisiana, it’s not uncommon for industry to get government help - most often tax exemptions from the state - only to cut workers. Marathon grabbed up our money but let go our neighbors. John the Baptist Parish who probably don’t say “reduced” when describing what the company did to them. The “reductions,” to use Marathon’s word, included 45 workers at Marathon’s refinery in St. oil company - Marathon let go almost 1,920 employees. Then, the same year it secured its $2.1 billion in federal tax benefits - the most of any U.S. You, I and every other American taxpayer helped out Marathon Petroleum during the worst of the pandemic.

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