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April 24, 2026
Steelworkers, Mexican Miners Protest at Crown Holdings Shareholders’ Meeting in Mexico

MONTERREY - United Steelworkers (USW) members from Canada joined 32 members of Los Mineros, the National Miners’ and Metalworkers’ Union of Mexico, to confront Crown Holdings directors at the corporation’s annual shareholder meeting Thursday. Crown’s shareholders’ meeting strangely took place at its recently acquired can manufacturing plant in Monterrey, after being held for over a... Read More

April 22, 2026
The #1 Reason You Should Buy Beer In #BottlesNotCans

April 20, 2026
19 Months On The Picket Lines

The People’s Daily Morning Star - Ben Chacko ALFRED MUNGRA and Bob Lapchuk work at a beer and beverage can plant in Toronto. So what brought them 3,500 miles across an ocean last week to protest outside Carnival Cruise Lines’s AGM in London? The answer is a 19-month strike involving the plant’s entire 120-strong workforce, provoked... Read More

April 16, 2026
Steelworkers Denounce Continued Lack of Accountability at Crown Holdings

TORONTO - Workers forced on strike over 19 months ago in Toronto by giant US-based can-maker Crown Holdings, Inc. (CCK) are denouncing the company’s continued lack of accountability to its shareholders. Shareholders should question Crown’s surprise move of its 2015 AGM to Monterrey, Mexico, the corporation’s failure to disclose the involvement of its CEO and... Read More

April 15, 2026
Media and workers mocking Donald for ducking responsibility of Carnival cruise strike

LONDON, England – On Tuesday outside Carnival Corporation and Carnival PLC’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), held at the historic conference center abutting Westminster Abbey, activists of Unite the Union, Britain’s largest union with 1.4 million members, wore life vests and held a huge banner stating, “Why Is Donald Arnold Throwing Workers Overboard?” They leafleted the... Read More

April 15, 2026
A Protest Held outside Carnival’s Headquarters in Harbour Parade, Southampton, to Support United Steelworkers Union

Southern Daily Echo - Michael Carr, Reporter A PROTEST was held outside the headquarters of a Southampton-based cruise giant. More than 10 people gathered outside Carnival‘s headquarters in Harbour Parade to support the United Steelworkers Union. The protest will support workers at Crown Packaging in Canada who have been on strike since September 2013 over... Read More

April 15, 2026
Carnival CEO Ducks Responsibility at AGM in London for Prolonging 19-Month Strike

LONDON, U.K. – The Annual General Meeting of Carnival Corporation and Carnival PLC yesterday in London was dominated by questions about CEO Arnold Donald’s role in a 19-month strike by United Steelworkers (USW) members in Toronto. Donald ducked responsibility for his role in the ongoing labour dispute at the Toronto manufacturing plant operated by multinational Crown... Read More

April 10, 2026
Canadian beer can dispute to make waves at cruise company AGM

The 19-month dispute at packaging company Crown Packaging in Canada is set to rock the boat at the annual meeting of Carnival Cruise Lines in London on Tuesday (14 April). The United Steelworkers (USW) union is campaigning on behalf of 120 workers at the Toronto site of Crown Packaging who have been on strike since... Read More

April 10, 2026
Philadelphia City Council Condemns Philadelphia-based Crown Holdings for Union Busting in Toronto

TORONTO, PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia City Council has unanimously denounced Philadelphia-based multinational Crown Holdings for its union-busting behaviour against Toronto workers forced to strike for the last 19 months. Philadelphia City Council - including Republican members - unanimously passed a resolution Thursday condemning Crown Holdings, one the world’s largest beer can manufacturers, for its actions against... Read More

April 9, 2026
Steelworkers Welcome Nationwide Beer Can Boycott

TORONTO - Millions of union members across Canada are being urged to boycott beer sold in cans to protest an American corporation’s union-busting tactics at a Toronto factory. The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), representing 54 unions with more than three million members across the country, today joined a beer can boycott launched by United Steelworkers... Read More

April 9, 2026
CLC joins national beer can boycott against Crown Holdings: Union members urged to buy their beer in bottles, not cans

OTTAWA ― Canada’s central labour body is calling on workers across the country to join a nation-wide boycott by buying their beer in bottles, not cans. The move backs a boycott launched by the United Steelworkers in support of 120 workers forced on strike in September 2013 by Crown Holdings, one of the world’s largest... Read More

April 6, 2026
John Cartwright: The Business of Inequality

For 18 months, they stood their ground on a picket line outside the plant that many had worked in for most of their lives. Through two of the coldest winters, they braved freezing weather as sentinels, guarding a principle that unites them. The 120 workers at Crown Holdings in Toronto were on strike because they... Read More

April 4, 2026
Radio Interview : Strike at Crown Holdings - 18 month check-in

CHRY Radio interview with USW Local 9176 Recording Secretary,John Beechey and Head of Strategic Campaigns at USW in Canada, Joe Drexler. Read More

April 1, 2026
PHOTO SET: Day of Action - Part III

All over the province of Ontario union supporters and activists showed solidarity with Local 9176 strikers across the province on March 28th, 2015 handing out leaflets and raising awareness about the Bottles Not Cans Campaign at Beer Stores and LCBOs. We are also proud to say that the Bottles Not Cans initiative has now grown... Read More

March 25, 2026
Caribbean Workers On 18-Month-Old Strike Hopeful For Resolution

Pride - Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Editor TORONTO, Ontario – Over 120 workers who have been on an 18-month strike in the north end of the city are welcoming an effort by the provincial government to try to resolve the labour dispute, which began on September 6, 2013. On March 13, Minister of Labour, Kevin... Read More

March 25, 2026
Letter of Solidarity From Carleton Graduate Students’ Association

Letter of Solidarity From Carleton Graduate Students’ Association GSA Letter to USW Toronto Read More

March 24, 2026
York South-Weston MPP Laura Albanese asks Minister of Labour about dispute at Crown

March 24, 2015: York South-Weston MPP Laura Albanese asks Minister of Labour about dispute at Crown. Read More

March 12, 2026
IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER DAY OF ACTION!

Come and show your support and solidarity for 120 workers at Crown Metal Packaging (USW Local 9176) who have been on the picket line for more than 18 months! These dedicated, long-service workers are facing a giant multinational company that is determined to get rid of them and their union. Crown hired scabs to make... Read More

March 12, 2026
Labour Minister Kevin Flynn and Liberal MPP Laura Albanese

March 3, 2026
Taras Natyshak MPP Statement on Labour Dispute at Crown Holdings.

March 2, 2026
MPP Peter Tabuns Calls on Premier Wynne to Intervene in the Labour Dispute at Crown

February 27, 2026
Photo Set: Beer Can Workers Picket Indifferent Liberal MPPs’ Offices

Striking employees of Crown Metal Packaging were picketing and leafleting outside the constituency office of York West MPP Mario Sergio. Sergio represents the riding where the Crown Metal Packaging factory is located and where many of the strikers live. The strikers met with Sergio several months ago, but never heard from him again. Over the... Read More

February 21, 2026
The heartache of finding Elijah Marsh’s body: DiManno

The Star - Rosie DiManno Columnist, Marco Chown Oved Staff Reporter David Elines and fellow strikers left a picket line to help find the missing boy. “When our search for Elijah began, we envisioned a different end,” he said later. They called and called: ELIJAH! Hundreds of them, searching high and low, scanning homes and... Read More

February 11, 2026
Ghana: IndustriALL members locked out at Crown Holdings

IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the Industrial & Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) protest against the lock out at Crown Holdings in Ghana. On 27 January, workers at Crown Cans Ghana Limited, specializing in the manufacturing of metal packaging for the food industry, staged a protest in front of the company gate. Management had without any preliminary... Read More

February 10, 2026
Long Strike - USW Member interviewed on CBC Radio

Employees of the can manufacturer Crown Holdings have been on strike for almost a year and a half. Matt Galloway spoke with Cheryle Dollimore, she is one of the employees. CBC Metro Morning www.bottlesnotcans.ca Read More

February 9, 2026
Ontario Liberals Must Help End 17-Month Beer Can Strike

TORONTO - Prominent Canadian labour leaders are joining a growing chorus calling on Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government to help end a 17-month labour dispute at a Toronto beer can factory. Labour leaders and provincial and federal politicians walked the picket line at Crown Metal Packaging, declaring the Wynne government can no longer ignore Toronto workers... Read More

February 2, 2026
Crown factory workers’ strike ignored for 17 long months

Toronto Star | MARCO CHOWN OVED, Staff Reporter Politicians decry the destruction of Ontario’s manufacturing sector, yet no one’s talking about a bitter strike at the U.S company’s beer-can plant in North York. When Caterpillar laid off 460 people in 2012 and shuttered their London locomotive factory, politicians of all stripes decried the blow to... Read More

January 30, 2026
Bottles Not Cans Day of Action: The Sequel

January 24, 2026
Union renews push against can maker Crown Holdings

Toronto factory produces cans for beer companies like Molson Coors and Labatt CBC News The striking employees of a beer can maker are again calling on consumers to buy their brew in bottles. The United Steelworkers union is setting up information pickets at beer stores across the province this weekend. It wants consumers to choose... Read More

January 22, 2026
Beer Can Boycott Expands Across Ontario

TORONTO - Ontario beer drinkers are being urged to join a growing boycott of beer cans produced by a union-busting American corporation. The beer can boycott, endorsed by the Ontario Federation of Labour, is expanding this week with radio ads and Beer Store demonstrations in communities across the province on Saturday. The boycott supports Toronto... Read More

January 21, 2026
Bottles Not Cans Radio Ad - January 21-24, 2015

Launched on January 21, 2026 in major radio markets all over Ontario, the USW’s latest ad in its Bottles Not Cans campaign features a second-generation worker from Crown’s Toronto plant personally describing the attack on his working and living standards by his employer, can-maker Crown Holdings.   Read More

January 21, 2026
I’m Boycotting Beer Sold in Cans and Here’s Why You Should Too

With all the publicity focused on the Beer Store in recent weeks, there is another beer story with profound implications that has received little media coverage. Crown Metal Packaging employees in Toronto, who make cans for all the major beer companies and many craft brewers, have entered the 17th month of a forced strike. These... Read More

December 22, 2025
Six packs of solidarity for Crown Holdings strikers

rabble.ca - Ella Bedard This holiday season, members of USW local 9176 are asking beer drinkers to bring home a cold case of solidarity in bottles, not aluminum cans. The workers at a Crown Holdings canning plant in the north Toronto neighbourhood of Weston went on strike on September 6, 2025 after negotiations reached a... Read More

December 16, 2025
Radio Labour: Interview with Tony DePaulo on Crown Day of Action

Tony DePaulo, Assistant to USW District 6 Director, talks to Radio Labour today about Saturday’s Crown Day of Action at Ontario Beer Stores and LCBO. Listen to Tony’s full interview. Read More

December 16, 2025
Rank and File.ca: Kicking the Can Across Ontario

This past Saturday, the USW organized a province wide day of action in support of the 124 striking workers at Crown Holdings’ factory in Toronto, who are represented by USW Local 9176. The workers, who have been on strike for 15 months, make beer cans for Crown Holdings, the dominant beer can manufacturer in Ontario.... Read More

December 14, 2025
Brantford Expositor: Union urges boycott of buying beer in cans

Steelworkers are urging beer drinkers to buy their suds in bottles instead of cans to support striking workers at a Toronto packaging plant. The 125 workers, members of the United Steelworkers, have been on strike since 2013, a job action they say they were forced into by their employer Crown Holdings. “They’re standing up for... Read More

December 12, 2025
Stratford Beacon Herald: Steelworkers ask Stratford Beer Drinkers to Share Holiday Spirit

On Saturday, Dec. 13, beer drinkers in Stratford will be urged to buy their favourite brew in bottles - not cans - to support working families under attack this holiday season by the world’s largest beer can maker. Striking members of the United Steelworkers (USW) and their supporters will be leafleting near the Beer Store... Read More

December 12, 2025
Hamilton Spectator: For the record: Beer can makers ask for your support

Beer drinkers across Ontario are being asked to buy their favourite brew Saturday in bottles to support workers on strike at Crown Holdings, which manufactures beer cans for Molson, Labatt and a number of craft breweries. The 125 workers at the Toronto plant have been out for 16 months and are members of the United... Read More

November 28, 2025
Boycott Beer in Cans: Quebec Steelworkers

MONTREAL - Crown Holdings cavalierly announced yesterday that it is closing its last manufacturing plant in the Montreal region. Meanwhile, the company’s ongoing refusal to negotiate a fair settlement with its unionized employees in Toronto continues to prolong a 15-month strike. Crown’s decision to close its Montreal operation means cans will no longer be manufactured by... Read More

November 18, 2025
German Metalworkers Union Protests against Crown as Campaign in North America Intensifies

Germany - IG Metall IG Metall, the German Metal Workers Union protested against the union busting by Crown in Toronto at a trade show on November 11th in Nuremberg, Germany. Crown was exhibiting its new packaging innovations at the trade show, and four members of IG Metall, holding a USW banner, gave attendees leaflets in... Read More

November 17, 2025
USW Members Seeking Support in Philadelphia on Dec. 4

17 NOVEMBER 2025 | TODAY IN PHILLY LABOR Members of United Steelworkers Local 9176 recently met with Today In Philly Labor talk show host and President of the Philadelphia AFL-CIO Council Pat Eiding to discuss their upcoming Solidarity Rally on Thursday, December 4 to protest at Crown Holdings headquarters in Philadelphia. Road Warriors, Rob... Read More

October 14, 2025
CBC News: Steelworkers union targets beer can maker in ongoing labour dispute

125 workers at a Toronto beer can plant have been locked out since September 2013 Looking to purchase a few cold brewskies this week in the GTA? If so, buy it in bottles, not cans, the United Steel Workers union is urging consumers. In a new set of radio ads airing on stations throughout southern... Read More

October 13, 2025
Buy Bottled Beer, Not Cans, Steelworkers Say

United Steelworkers launches biggest radio ad campaign in its history to end yearlong labour dispute at can-maker Crown Holdings TORONTO, 14 October 2025 – Today the United Steelworkers (USW) is launching a radio advertising campaign aimed at ending a yearlong strike at Toronto beer can manufacturer Crown Holdings. Compelling, 30-second spots encourage consumers to “buy... Read More

October 11, 2025
Crown Holdings Workers from Canada Find Solidarity in Pennsylvania

Members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9176 in Toronto, Ontario were surprised and thankful for the support and solidarity from union groups as they traveled to Philadelphia to confront top executives at Crown Holding. The 120 workers were forced on strike in September 2013 after Crown demanded major concessions from employees. Now, Crown wants to... Read More

October 8, 2025
Radio: Striker Steve McHugh on Rick Steve Show

Steve McHugh, striking Crown Holding worker talks about how he and his fellow workers are getting bullied by the multi-national behemoth hell bent on imposing its will on the workers. Listen to Steve’s interview HERE Read More

October 7, 2025
USW Solidarity Rally and Reception to Support Canadian Crown Workers

The 120 members of USW Local 9176 in Toronto, Ontario were forced on strike in September 2013 after Crown demanded major concessions from employees. Now, Crown wants to discard 75% of the workers, even if they settle the year-long strike. Strikers are traveling to Crown Holding’s corporate headquarters in Philadelphia to confront the company’s CEO... Read More

September 30, 2025
Radio: Boycott the cans, not the beer - Joe Drexler on The Union Edge

Joe Drexler, Head of USW Strategic Campaigns in Canada talks to Union Edge Radio about the USW’s campaign to end the strike at Crown Holdings, including the growing can boycott. Listen on TheUnionEdge.com website Read More

September 30, 2025
Photo Set: Unite the Union supports Crown Workers with UK rally

Crown Packaging Europe, a division of Crown Holdings, Inc. was exhibiting at the Packaging Innovations Trade Show in London today. Unite the Union, the USW’s partner in Workers Uniting, the first global union, was there in force, showing its support for the members of USW 9176 who have been on strike in Toronto for over... Read More

September 18, 2025
U.S. Company Wants to Discard 75% of Workers Following Strike

TORONTO, Sept. 18, 2014 /CNW/ - American multinational Crown Holdings wants to replace three-quarters of its unionized Toronto workers even if they settle a year-long labour dispute. Crown Holdings’ actions have prompted the Toronto employees’ union, the United Steelworkers (USW) to file a complaint of bad faith bargaining and unfair labour practices with the Ontario Labour Relations Board. One of... Read More

June 27, 2025
Crown Holdings Workers Act Globally to Confront Anti-Union Practices

TORONTO, June 27, 2025 /CNW/ - European unions and European Works Council (EWC) members are denouncing anti-union actions in Turkey and Canada by Crown Holdings, one of the largest metal packaging companies in the world. EWCs are mandated under European law to serve as advisory committees to employers in the EU. EWC members are elected by workers, and employers are required... Read More

June 18, 2026
Photo Set: Leafleting at Beer Store and LCBO

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June 18, 2026
Bottled Beer Tastes Better this Summer: Crown Holdings Strikers

TORONTO - Toronto workers forced on strike nine months ago by can-making giant Crown Holdings are appealing to LCBO and Beer Store customers not to buy canned suds. The appeal to beer drinkers comes as the strikers - members of the United Steelworkers - escalate their campaign to compel U.S.-based Crown to negotiate a settlement... Read More

April 28, 2026
Unions speak out against Crown with field actions

IndustriALL Global Union – Following the announced series of protest actions scheduled across the globe in conjunction with the annual shareholders meeting of Crown Holdings, IndustriALL Global Union and its affiliates in North America and Europe continue to build resistance against Crown Holdings over bad corporate behaviours around the world. On April 24 protest actions took... Read More

April 25, 2026
Union protest targets Crown Holdings meeting

Jane M. Von Bergen, Inquirer Staff Writer - Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia’s trademark inflatable union rat, which showed up Thursday outside the Northeast Philadelphia corporate headquarters of Crown Holdings Inc., might be local, but the union protest at the $8.6 billion company’s annual meeting was strictly global. Organizing the protest were members of a Canadian local of... Read More

April 24, 2026
Crown Holdings CEO Stuns Shareholders, Refuses Questions During Annual Meeting

PHILADELPHIA, 24 April, 2014 /CNW/ - Crown Holdings shareholders shook their heads in disbelief today when CEOJohn Conway barred them from speaking at Crown’s annual meeting. Prevented from addressing the board of directors, shareholders were told to submit written questions, but most went unanswered during the meeting at Crown’s Philadelphia headquarters. Union members from several countries attended the meeting to seek answers for labour... Read More

April 23, 2026
Limit Crown Holdings’ Executive Pensions, AFL-CIO Tells Shareholders

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2026 /CNW/ - On the eve of Crown Holdings, Inc.’s (CCK) annual meeting of shareholders, the Office of Investment of the American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is urging Crown’s shareholders to vote in favor of a shareholder proposal that would limit retirement benefits for senior executives. The AFL-CIO’s Office of... Read More

April 18, 2026
Toronto Strikers Bump Boycott Tactics

Steelworkers are holding the line against two-tier wages and pensions at a can plant in Toronto—ruining the plans of their employer, can manufacturing giant Crown Holdings. In late March, after seven months on strike, workers voted against going back to work 117 to 1. Crown has been trying to impose two-tier across all its union... Read More

April 11, 2026
‘We weren’t asking for more, we just wanted to keep what we had': worker

London Community News - Sean Meyer The public has routinely criticized unions for what is perceived as their unrealistic expectations during tough economic times. Calvin Gillard on the other hand would simply like to be able to hold on to what he already has. Gillard and more than two dozen members of United Steelworkers (USW)... Read More

April 9, 2026
Three reasons 120 striking Toronto workers are making global waves

Rabble.ca - H.G. Watson They may be small in number, but 120 striking Toronto workers are making global waves in the labour movement. On September 6, 2013, the workers at a Crown Holdings canning plant in Weston, a north Toronto neighbourhood, went on strike. They have remained on the line for eight months, picketing through... Read More

April 7, 2026
‘Where Have You Been?’ for Young Workers, Campaign Asks Premier

TORONTO, April 7, 2026 /CNW/ - An online letter-writing campaign is calling on Premier Kathleen Wynne “to stand on the side of Ontario workers and the next generation and not multinational corporations.” “Where have you been?” the campaign launched by the online news service LabourStart asks Wynne. “It is time for you to stand on the side of Ontario workers and the next... Read More

April 7, 2026
New LabourStart Campaign: Premier Wynne: Stand Up for Young Workers!

120 members of USW Local 9176 at Crown Holdings in Toronto were forced on strike seven months ago by a profitable multi-national corporation bent on imposing a radical two-tier wage scheme at their plant. Under that plan, new hires would permanently earn up to 42% less for doing the same work as existing workers. The... Read More

April 7, 2026
Fighting Two Tier Wages

7 APRIL 2026 | CBC RADIO The push by some corporations to introduce two-tier wages, one for older workers, another for new hires, is creating a generational divide in the workplace. The CBC’s Mary Wiens spoke with some Crown Holdings workers. CBC Radio Interview www.TakeBacksNoMore.ca www.usw.ca/labourstart Read More

March 31, 2026
Young People in Ontario Shouldn’t Have to Work For Less

Sid Ryan, President - Ontario Federation of Labour | HUFFINGTON POST | Crown Holdings, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of food and beverage containers, is using its corporate might to create an underclass of young workers at its Toronto factory. After doubling its profits in 2012 to more than $200 million, the US-based company is... Read More

March 31, 2026
Cruise Boycott Expands: Anything But Carnival says Ontario Federation of Labour

Ontario Federation of Labour – (TORONTO) – The boycott of Carnival Cruises gained significant new support and momentum today as the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) officially threw its support behind it. The one-million member OFL joins a growing list of supporters in endorsing the boycott to protest the role of Carnival’s chief executive in a nearly seven-month... Read More

March 24, 2026
Seven Months on Picket Line, Toronto Workers Vote 117-1 Against U.S. Company’s Contract Offer

TORONTO - Despite seven inhospitable months on a picket line, a group of Toronto workers has voted 117-1 against American manufacturing giant Crown Holdings’ attacks on their living standards. The members of the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9176 were forced to vote today on a contract offer from U.S.-based Crown, one of the world’s largest... Read More

March 24, 2026
Manufacturing Giant Crown Holdings Condemned for Human Rights Abuses in Turkey

TORONTO - The United Steelworkers (USW) is condemning the latest anti-labour attacks of U.S.-based multinational Crown Holdings, which has fired union activists at its manufacturing plant in Turkey. Four labour activists who spent over a year on a union organizing drive at Crown’s operations in Turkey have been fired, the Turkish union Birleşik Metal-İş has... Read More

March 20, 2026
Crown once again tramples labour rights

IndustriALL Global Union - The Turkish subsidiary of Crown Holdings, Crown Bevcan, dismissed four trade union leaders with false and groundless charges as they had led union organizing at the company plant located in Izmit. Along with consistent union busting and derecognition in Turkey, Crown dismissed four workers Haluk Efe, Mehmet Akbay, Mustafa Bayram and... Read More

March 19, 2026
Strike could affect beer can supplies

A six-month strike at the Crown Holdings plant in Toronto causes uncertainty over supply of cans to beer, soft drink and food producers. TORONTO—Workers forced onto the picket line six months ago at the Crown Holdings manufacturing plant in Toronto say the protracted labor dispute is threatening reliable supplies of cans to beer, soft drink... Read More

March 5, 2026
500,000-Member Retirees’ Group Joins Carnival Cruise Boycott

OTTAWA, March 5, 2026 /CNW/ - The 500,000-member Congress of Union Retirees of Canada (CURC) is endorsing a boycott of Carnival Cruises to protest the role of Carnival’s chief executive in a six-month labour dispute in Toronto. Carnival CEO Arnold Donald is a key director of U.S.-based manufacturing giant Crown Holdings. Crown Holdings provoked a strike at its Toronto factory last September... Read More

February 27, 2026
Crown Holdings Workers in Toronto Strike Against Severe Wage Cuts

Listen to this RadioLabour report featuring Fred Redmond, USW International Vice President (Human Affairs). More than 120 workers employed by the U.S. multinational corporation Crown Holdings in Toronto have been on strike since September 6, 2013, fighting for fairness. www.RadioLabour.net www.takebacksnomore.ca www.usw.ca/crownholdings Read More

February 25, 2026
Ongoing Strike Provoked by U.S. Manufacturer Raises Questions over Beer Can Supplies

Six-month strike at Crown Holdings plant in Toronto causing uncertainty over supply of cans to beer, soft drink and food producers TORONTO, Feb. 25, 2014 /CNW/ - Workers forced onto the picket line six months ago at the Crown Holdings manufacturing plant in Toronto say the protracted labour dispute is threatening reliable supplies of cans to beer, soft drink and food... Read More

February 20, 2026
Steelworkers Applaud Boycott of Carnival Cruises by Canada’s Largest Labour Council

TORONTO, Feb. 20, 2014 /CNW/ - A packed house of Toronto and York Region Labour Council delegates voted unanimously at their last monthly meeting to boycott Carnival Corporation cruises until the nearly six-month long labour dispute at Crown Holdings is resolved. Labour Council President John Cartwright congratulated the delegates on taking such a decisive position. “Tonight, we are sending an... Read More

February 3, 2026
New Steelworkers Website Escalates “Take Backs No More” Campaign Against Crown Holdings

3 FEBRUARY 2026 | MEDIA RELEASE TORONTO - The United Steelworkers (USW) now has an official home on the web for its campaign against Crown Holdings Inc. at www.takebacksnomore.ca. After months without negotiations, USW and Crown representatives are meeting Tuesday in Toronto in the hopes of reaching an agreement. But the USW is not relenting in... Read More

February 3, 2026
How Does it Make You Feel

February 1, 2026
The Pride (USW)

January 30, 2026
Crown Corporate Governance Report

A new report prepared by the United Steelworkers advocates major changes in Crown Holdings’ corporate governance. Among the proposed changes are: (1) align its executive compensation plans with those of well-governed companies; (2) separate the positions of board chair and CEO; (3) establish a succession plan for CEO; (4) amend the shareholder rights plan to allow... Read More

January 17, 2026
Windy day on the picket line – Take Backs No More

January 16, 2026
Union Shares Concerns with Travel Agents over Carnival Cruises

16 JANUARY 2026 | MEDIA RELEASE TORONTO - The United Steelworkers (USW), North America’s largest industrial union, is asking thousands of travel agents across the continent to consider whether they should recommend Carnival Corporation cruises to their customers. “Given the string of tragedies that have plagued the world’s largest cruise ship operator over the past... Read More

January 16, 2026
‘Take-Backs no more’ campaign targets Carnival Cruises CEO

16 JANUARY 2026 | IndustriALL Release IndustriALL and its affiliates give full support to the new phase of the campaign led by United Steelworkers against Arnold Donald, CEO of Carnival Cruises and director of Crown Holdings for an extreme antiunion behaviour. Workers of Crown Holdings plant in Canada, members of an IndustriALL affiliate United Steelworkers were forced... Read More

January 16, 2026
One day longer

January 15, 2026
The Pride II

January 7, 2026
USW 9176 STRIKE - 2013 - With Some Fun Music

January 6, 2026
Union Targets Carnival Cruise CEO Arnold Donald in Campaign

6 JANUARY 2026 | MEDIA RELEASE TORONTO – The United Steelworkers (USW) is launching a letter-writing campaign focused on a key director of Crown Holdings which despite record profits forced union members on strike in September 2013 by demanding wage cuts as high as 42 per cent and a permanent lower wage for youth and new workers. LabourStart campaign: Stop... Read More

January 6, 2026
Carnival Actions

January 5, 2026
Turkey/Europe solidarity trip

December 18, 2025
Steelworkers Ramp Up Campaign Against Crown Holdings in Toronto, Worldwide

18 DECEMBER 2025 | MEDIA RELEASE TORONTO – Corporate CEOs and directors are becoming major protest targets of Toronto workers forced on strike three months ago by manufacturing giant Crown Holdings. U.S.-based Crown Holdings forced 120 Toronto employees, members of the United Steelworkers (USW), on strike on Sept. 6. Despite huge profits, Crown is demanding... Read More

December 12, 2025
MPPs Invited to “Face Workers Who Are Suffering”

12 DECEMBER 2025 | MEDIA RELEASE TORONTO - The United Steelworkers (USW) is inviting Ontario MPPs to visit a Toronto picket line to see first-hand how provincial labour law is helping to relegate young people to a permanent class of low-wage jobs. A 14-week labour dispute at the Crown Holdings manufacturing plant in Toronto shows... Read More

December 1, 2025
UPDATED: Packaging Strike Hits Cruise Ship

1 December 2025 | Tony Burke - Power in a Union The United Steelworkers in the USA and Canada have taken their dispute with Crown Holdings, the multi national packaging company to cruise ships owned by Carnival Cruises. USW members have been handing out union leaflets and wearing T-shirts in support of their members forced out on... Read More

November 21, 2025
Major Union Ramps Up Fight With Carnival Corp. CEO

21 November 2025 | Zachary-Cy Vanasse - TravelHotNews.com Union fight with third-party sees USW turn its sites on Carnival, create fear/smear campaign targeting travel industry United Steelworkers (USW) continues to campaign against the Carnival Corporation. Last month the union handed out leaflets at the cruise company’s headquarters in Florida to protest the role of Carnival CEO Arnold... Read More

November 19, 2025
Union Workers from Canada Protest at Crown Holdings in Philadelphia

19 NOVEMBER 2025 | MEDIA RELEASE PHILADELPHIA - Dozens of Canadian workers forced on strike by Crown Holdings journeyed 500 miles to Crown’s headquarters today to protest the company’s demands for cuts including a permanent lower wage scale for new and younger workers. “Crown doubled its profits last year and gave us an award this... Read More

November 19, 2025
Female Police Officer Hit By Car Carrying Crown Holdings Corporate Officer

19 NOVEMBER 2025 | MEDIA RELEASE TORONTO – A female police officer who was dispatched to a peaceful protest by Canadian members of the United Steelworkers at the headquarters of Crown Holdings in Philadelphia was struck by a car allegedly carrying a key corporate officer of the company. The incident occurred at approximately 9:00 a.m.... Read More

October 30, 2025
Steelworkers Take Global Campaign to Carnival Corporation’s Doorstep

30 OCTOBER 2025 | USW Releases | DOWNLOAD PDF MIAMI - The campaign to end an eight-week strike against Crown Holdings in Canada escalated in a major way today, as the United Steelworkers (USW) leafleted the headquarters of Carnival Corporation in Doral, Fla., to protest the role of CEO Arnold Donald, who also is a... Read More

October 30, 2025
Guests Advised of Surveillance/Privacy Issues at Toronto Hotel

30 OCTOBER 2025 | USW Release TORONTO - Patrons at a Toronto-area Marriott hotel are being advised to consider privacy and ethical questions raised by their exposure to a heavy presence of security agents and strikebreakers on the property. “This may not be your choice environment and you may want to reconsider your stay at Marriott,”... Read More

October 30, 2025
Crown Strikebreakers Housed at Marriott Hotel

October 22, 2025
Struggle against Crown Holdings crosses borders

October 22, 2025 | Joseph Piette - Worker’s World Philadelphia — A busload of 50 strikers from United Steelworkers Local 9176 in Toronto joined 50 other USW members and local labor activists outside the Philadelphia headquarters of Crown Holdings on Oct. 16. Chanting, “One day longer, one day stronger!” the workers from Canada and the United... Read More

October 22, 2025
Turkish and Canadian workers together call on Crown to stop busting

22.10.2025 | IndustriALL Release The global campaign against Crown Holdings over its anti-labor practices continues with a demonstration held in front of the company’s facility located at Kartepe, Izmit in Turkey on 21 October following the ones in the US and Switzerland. Hosted by Birleşik Metal-İş and attended by the USW, the action raised common voice... Read More

October 21, 2025
Crown Holdings - Rally in Philly

October 18, 2025
Campaign against Crown Holdings escalates with actions in Europe

18.10.2025 | IndustriALL Release IndustriALL Global Union and USW, with the support of UNIA, stage protests in front of the European headquarters in Baar and warns board member of the company who keeps leading post at Swiss retailer association ProMarka in Bern, Switzerland. On 18 October 2025 activists of the local section of UNIA at Zug... Read More

October 11, 2025
Thousands protest against Crown Holdings

11.10.2025 | IndustriALL Release Trade unions across the globe express their solidarity with the locked out workers of Crown Holdings, the U.S. based multinational, tramping unabashedly on workers’ rights in Canada and Turkey. Members of USW Local 9176 have drawn a line in the sand and demand Crown Holdings to stop trying to build profits on... Read More

October 10, 2025
Thousands Worldwide Condemn Crown Holdings’ Attacks on Workers

10 OCTOBER 2025 | USW MEDIA RELEASE TORONTO - Over 7,000 people have joined a global campaign to resist manufacturing giant Crown Holdings’ attacks on its employees’ working and living standards. The Take-Backs No More campaign has been launched in support of Crown Holdings employees in Toronto who are fighting back against the U.S.-based multinational’s latest demands... Read More

October 9, 2025
IndustriALL seeks justice for Crown workers in Canada and Turkey

9 October 2025 | Uni Global Union - News Release IndustriALL Global Union, its North American affiliate (United Steelworkers) USW and Turkish affiliate Birleşik Metal-İş are campaigning to stop Crown Holding’s attacks against workers with the support of Unite the Union of the UK, the International Association of Machinists (IAMAW) of North America, Crown’s European Works... Read More

October 8, 2025
Steelworkers Condemn Crown Holdings’ Use of Strikebreakers at Toronto Plant

8 OCTOBER 2025 | USW MEDIA RELEASE TORONTO - Manufacturing giant Crown Holdings is inflaming a Toronto labour dispute by importing strikebreakers from Alberta, the United Steelworkers (USW) says. “Crown Holdings’ use of strikebreakers is an obvious provocation and should be widely condemned,” said Marty Warren, the USW’s Ontario Director. “This global corporation should be... Read More

October 2, 2025
Support striking workers at Crown in Canada

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Tony Burke | Power in a Union Crown Holdings, a U.S. based multi-national company, (also know as Crown Packaging and previously Crown Cork) is one of the major metal container and specialist packaging companies in the world, producing cans for beverage and food containers in 149 countries, including sites here in the UK. Despite... Read More

October 2, 2025
Global unions back Toronto workers’ fightback against Crown

2 October 2025 | UNITE - News Release Unite, Britain’s biggest union, is backing Canadian members of the United Steelworkers (USW) who are on strike at Crown Holdings, a US owned multinational company. Members of the United Steelworkers (USW) from Toronto were forced on strike from 6 September because the company is demanding the elimination of a cost... Read More

September 20, 2025
Crown Holdings Forces Toronto Employees on Strike

20 SEPTEMBER 2025 | USW MEDIA RELEASE TORONTO - Today the United Steelworkers (USW) escalated its campaign against Crown Holdings by sending letters to Crown’s CEO and Board of Directors demanding they take action to end a three-week strike at a beverage and food can manufacturing plant in Toronto. Joining the USW in support are... Read More