• 120 Toronto workers, members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9176 were forced on strike by Crown Holdings, Inc. on September 6, 2025
• Crown’s Toronto facility has been unionized for over 25 years and many of the workers have worked for Crown for over two decades
• The company consolidated labour relations at its US headquarters and has little knowledge of the unique nature and issues of the Toronto facility
• Crown is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of food and beverage cans
• It claims to make one out of every five beverage cans in the world, and one out of every three food cans in North America
• Crown operates approximately 140 plants in 40 countries; about 12,000 of its 21,300 employees worldwide are covered by a collective agreement
• Crown nearly doubled its profits in 2012, to $557 million from $282 million in 2011
• Crown’s CEO was paid an average of $13 million/year in the past five years
• The Toronto facility is one of Crown’s top producers in North America and received the 2012 “Plant of the Year Award” for outstanding “safety, productivity and budget management”
• The facility produces over 5 million beverage and food cans per day for customers such as Molson, Coors, Labatt, Budweiser, Moosehead, Creemore, Morgan’s and Cotts