The original announcement was, Imperial Oil will lay off 900 staff from Calgary to reduce operating cost, and staff at the asset level will remain untouched. But, now I find out that they will layoff from Strathcona refinery too.
What happened? Did I miss understand the original announcement? Or, is it IOL management lying to us again?
@kg
It will happen to wage eventually but not today. And wage will be happy to oblige because they know its not them losing jobs, at least not today anyways. This is how salami divide and rule tactics work. Wage is just complacent till they are hit some day.
@f0
Spring guys have to justify their own jobs else they will also disappear. So they look for "efficiencies" and strathcona is just another casualty. The Strathcona middle men doing Spring's bidding also have to do it else they will be NSI'ed and terminated!!!!!
At the end of the day, greed has no limit, that is how capitalism works.
You could get rid of 95 percent of Imperial management and not notice a thing.
@gy Hopefully a bunch of the brownnosers. There are a couple there that are just arrogant whiny and never really done anything of note who keep moving up.
I guess when you are in the manager’s office all day instead of doing their job, thats a sign you should be promoted.
Or when you talk down to everyone and act like you are best buds with executives.
It sure is baffling.
@kg
The wage folk won’t be touched. They already run them as lean as possible and supplement them with contractors. The company manages headcount through attrition with wage. The contractor numbers might take a dip but will hardly be noticeable.
@kg It’s a lot more than 25% of the MPT folks. The original communication shows an employee reduction from ~5000 to ~4000 (20% of total workforce) with the “above field” workforce being reduced from 1750 to 850 people. IOL Field personnel are wage and a few specific MPT roles (mostly FLSs). Above Field includes most MPT and some admin folks. So, realistically, this is a 40-50% reduction in MPT positions.
Your right. Wage are not affected. Imagine the wage stand up and sit right back down and 900 MPT’s lose their job. What is that like 25 percent of the MPT’s?
Also, do you really think they will never touch the Wage people? It will come, be sure of that.
Good Luck
How many MPTs from Kearl are going?
@fh Except a lot less than 6000 are standing up for this game of musical chairs since wage employees are not in scope.
Only MPT's are affected. So imagine this, 6000 people stand up and 900 chairs are removed. All MPT's are affected, either they keep their current job, they move to a new job or they are sent home. Total reset.
All sites, including refineries will see some people go. Sadly no one is immune
The idea that Strathcona needs to cut personnel to somehow further increase its already astronomical profitability is so ridiculous. Site management is all cowards who just execute brainless orders from clueless cowards in Spring.
@eg employees only. Contractors are excluded and can be terminated any time without notice.
They have never said there would be no layoffs at sites. They have only said that it he cuts are for above-field personnel only and that field-classified personnel would not be impacted. Field vs above field is not as simple as at a site vs not at a site. There are north of 600 above-field positions that are based at the different operating sites.
Do these numbers included contractors, or is getting rid of them not counted?
900 head counts is just a sugar coated number.
OP. EM goal is to replace you with a cheap Indian. If not now, soon.
No long term future here. My plan is to drag my feet and hope for a layoff.
This place is toxic and is only going to to get worse.
The original announcement said they would be cutting 900 “above field” personnel and that Calgary campus would be closed with remaining personnel being relocated, predominantly to Edmonton. Most of the MPT positions at the sites would be considered “above field”. If you didn’t realize that, then you misunderstood.
Strathcona and Sarnia going down by 25-30, Nanticoke going down by ~10.
They were always reducing headcount at each site, and most plans until the end of '26 had cuts at each site (retirements, "redundancies", efficiencies, and some performance cuts via PIP/PIL). The subsequent years were up in the air for hard numbers but the announcement forced further reductions.
For the refineries it was roughly 7-8% cuts difference from YE 25 to YE 27, and all MPT
Like consolidating one’s kitchen cupboards. If you have too many frying pans, the rustier ones go to the donation bin.
if anyone has not figured it out by now, this company is fond of saying one thing, but really meant to do something different… they always claim transparency, when everyone knows it’s all BS!
IOL is forced to do a Canada-wide restructuring. Exxon is calling the shots. If anybody got the relocation survey or severance estimates then their position is being considered.
It is your mistake that you trusted IOL management.