ENERGY

Refinery Strike Not Expected to Crimp Supplies: As many as 2,700 workers were ready to strike by midnight Tuesday unless “drastic movement” occurred in stalled contract negotiations with four San Francisco Bay Area refineries, said Jim Payne, secretary-treasurer of Local 1-5 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union. Payne said workers were on strike standby at the Chevron, Tosco, Shell and Unocal refineries. Workers want union members appointed as environmental monitors at the refineries, Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday and a wage hike to match one given Southern California refinery workers in 1992.