Workers have been placing long lengths of containment booms around the oil as winds and waves push it toward shore.

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And BP has agreed to establish a one hundred million dollar fund to pay unemployed oil rig workers.

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None of his workers were ever killed while putting out oil well or gas fires.

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Houston, home to oil workers and executives is seen as friendly to oil companies.

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The end to a oil workers' strike in also contributed to the drop in crude prices.

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That spend is good news for those supplying the industry, including oil workers and their wages.

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