14 May 2015
An on-line campaign at LaborStart was initiated by the Toronto and York Region Labour Council against long-standing lock-out at the Toronto plant of Crown Holding. The campaign delivers messages to Ontario Premier and Labour Minister asking them to take further action on the side of workers and stop a new era of union busting in Canada.
IndustriALL gives a strong support to 120 steelworkers in Toronto forced on strike over 20 months ago because they would not accept a demand by Crown Holdings, one of the largest can manufacturers in the world, for further large concessions including decrease in pay by 42 per cent for doing the same job.
Back in 2012 the company made double profits and honored the plant in Toronto with the company’s award to the best plant in North America.
To add to the pressure on workers who already going through an extreme hardship over the last 20 months, now Crown management has said that even if all the workers take wage cuts of up to 33 per cent, most of them will not get their jobs back.
Kemal Özkan, assistant general secretary of IndustriALL Global Union says:
"We extend our the strongest support to courageous steelworkers in Toronto. We also support them because the future of this strike has long standing consequences for everybody in Canada. These workers exercised their fundamental right to strike and cannot be punished for this. We cannot lose this battle. No to union busting!"
Send your letter to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Labour Minister Kevin Flynn asking them to take further action on the side of workers and stop a new era of union busting in Canada. The online action is available on LabourStart
