Press Release: Hospitality Workers Unionize at Two Northern BC Camps

Vancouver, BC — Horizon North workers at Kobes Creek Lodge and CPC Montney Lodge are the latest camp workers to unionize with UNITE HERE Local 40.

Nearly 100 culinary and housekeeping workers are employed at the remote lodges north of Fort St. John which provide workforce accommodations for natural gas project crews.

Contract negotiations will soon be underway at each lodge. Workers are seeking standards that other unionized Local 40 Horizon North members have secured. Currently, Kobes Creek Lodge and CPC Montney Lodge staff are paid $5 to-$7 less than unionized Horizon North workers earn.  They are also seeking increased travel pay and affordable health benefits.

“Local 40 camp members are raising the bar for wages and working conditions in remote camps. They work on multi-week rotations away from home to provide top notch service to remote workforce crews. Workers at Kobes Creek and CPC Montney deserve the same standard that other Horizon North crews have fought for and won,” said Robert Demand, Secretary-Treasurer of UNITE HERE Local 40.

Over 1,000 camp hospitality workers have joined UNITE HERE Local 40 in recent years, including workers at Red Chris Mine and Sodexo at Cedar Valley Lodge.

Contact: Michelle Travis, [email protected], 778-960-9785.