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Officials from Royal Dutch Shell Plc , the lead negotiator for oil companies, were repeatedly saying it would be too hard to meet the union's demands for a new three-year contract to lift pay and tighten safety practices, several union officials told Reuters. Late on Monday, Shell said representatives from the company resumed communications with the union "in hopes of coming to a mutually satisfactory contract agreement." A union official said both sides met but no progress was made. From the union's standpoint, Shell has always been the most flexible of the oil companies, much easier to negotiate with than Exxon Mobil Corp or Marathon Petroleum Corp .
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