Members of USW from Toronto have been on strike since September 6 as Crown Holdings demands major concessions from employees, including two-tier wage rates and pension freezes. The north-American union launched a global petition and several European unions have shown their solidarity. IndustriAll Global Union, the international manufacturing federation, is threatening to intensify the campaign. (Ref. 130689)
Crown Holdings, a US based multinational company, has 149 plants in 41 countries, employing 21,900 workers. There used to be two Crown factories in Toronto — employing a total of 1,000 workers – that supplied Labatt, Molson-Coors, Altoids, Cadbury and other manufacturers in the area. Now these two are merged into one with only 125 workers but produce an average production of 5 million cans daily. To protest against the concessions demanded by the company, even more criticized since the compan
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