‘You feel kind of forgotten’: Meet a California pipe fitter who got to $118k earnings after a decade but doesn’t know what’s next after the refinery shuts down

fortune.com/2025/10/12/feel-kind-of-forgotten-oil-industry-california-workers-face-refinery-shut-down

Thirty years ago, Willie Cruz was shocked when he learned the Southern California oil refinery where he worked was shutting down.
Cruz, now a 61-year-old living in Arizona, had spent five years working in the environmental department when Powerine Oil Company said it would close the…

This story appeared on fortune.com, 2025-10-12 15:24:27.
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