Crown Forces Toronto Employees on Strike Crown Holdings has taken an aggressive and confrontational approach in negotiations. Despite doubling its profits in 2012, Crown has demanded a two-tier wage schedule, the elimination of the cost-of-living allowance (COLA) and offered only minimal wage increases after years of pay freezes. During the previous contract negotiations, USW Local 9176 members cooperated with Crown to help it through difficult financial times. They agreed to freeze the COLA for two years. Their wages and pensions had already been frozen for years. While workers sacrificed through hard times, Crown’s CEO John Conway continued to receive a multi-million dollar compensation package. In 2012, Conway was paid over $12 million, including a $2.8 million bonus for reaching “economic targets” for the company – profits made possible by cutting wages and pensions and by the sacrifices and hard work of employees like the members of USW Local 9176. Crown’s demands threaten the well-being of current and future generations of Crown employees. Lower living standards and low wages are not a legacy that union members want to leave for new employees.

We have drawn a line in the sand and are standing up for all Crown workers.

SUPPORT CROWN STRIKERS! BE PART OF A GLOBAL CAMPAIGN TO STAND UP FOR JUSTICE!

GET ON THE BUS TO RALLY AT CROWN CORPORATE HQ IN PHILADELPHIA!

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16, 2013

RALLY IN PHILADELPHIA THEN ON TO RALLY IN ALLENTOWN

Leave Toronto at 3am to return at 12midnight

To register, contact Tony DePaulo at 416-243-8792 or Lawrence Hay at 416-977-7274

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