Union Legacy

ID: 2453 ~ Source: “Owens Illinois Glass Workers Rally across Continents.” IndustriALL, 15 Feb. 2013, www.industriall-union.org/owens-illinois-glass-workers-rally-across-continents.
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Union Legacy

Owens-Illinois workers have always been a part of unions throughout the company’s history. Most workers are now part of the Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics, and Allied Workers Union. Pictured here are some Owens-Illinois Waco employees circa 2013 who were part of a global alliance of Owens-Illinois workers fighting against management cuts.

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By Anabel Burke
Owens-Illinois Inc., one of the largest glass bottle manufacturers in the world, originally came out of the famous Glass Capital of the World—Toledo, Ohio—in 1903. With its success came expansion, and the company opened a plant in Waco, Texas, on…