A 21-month strike by United Steelworkers members against U.S.-based Crown Metal Packaging began in September 2013, when the global manufacturing giant demanded massive concessions from the employees of their beer packaging plant. With the Ontario Legislature about to recess for the summer, prominent labour leaders and striking workers are demand action from Premier Kathleen Wynne Continue readingWeekend Video: Striking Crown workers demand government action
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by David Bush and Doug Nesbitt Toronto is in the midst of an unprecedented strike by over 10,000 Teaching Assistants and contract faculty at York University and the University of Toronto: the country’s two largest universities. Only blocks away from the University of Toronto picket lines, the Liberal government in Queen’s Park has been waging a Continue readingAusterity Strangles Ontario: the TA strikes in context
A second day of #BottlesNotCans info pickets hit Beer Stores and LCBO’s across Ontario this Saturday. Customers at both stores were encouraged to buy bottles, not cans, in support of 124 Steelworkers on strike for 17 months at Crown Holdings against concessions like a 42% pay cut for new hires. The factory is producing beer Continue reading#BottlesNotCans The Sequel: Photo round-up