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Over 500 workers went on strike today at a San Francisco Bay Area Chevron Corp. refinery. The strike comes after workers voted down Chevron's most recent contract offer, and the company refused to return to the bargaining table. The old contract expired on February 1st, but workers have been reporting to their jobs on a rolling 24-hour extension. Chevron issued a statement Sunday night saying, “The union's demands exceeded what the company believes to be reasonable and moved beyond what was agreed to as part of the national pattern bargaining agreement.”