Entries by Michelle Travis

Media Advisory: SFU Dining Workers to Hold Demonstration and March for Living Wages

Vancouver, BC – SFU dining workers and their campus allies will be holding a demonstration on Wednesday, November 5, to demand the University become a permanent living wage employer.  SFU committed to paying living wages to contracted dining workers in the past, but the workers are paid considerably less than the Metro Vancouver living wage […]

Media Release: Locked-Out Coast Victoria Workers Take Fight to Calgary

Vancouver, BC — Hotel workers locked-out by Coast Victoria Hotel & Marina by APA held a protest downtown yesterday outside the Coast Calgary Downtown Hotel & Suites by APA, calling on the company to end its lockout in Victoria and negotiate a fair contract that provides living wages, safe workloads, and respect on the job. […]

Community / Political Organizer (Temporary 3-Month Position)

UNITE HERE Local 40, BC’s union for hospitality workers, is seeking a Community / Political Organizer to build power for hospitality workers. We are committed to developing rank-and-file leadership, organizing the unorganized, and to building a strong, fighting labour union. Candidates must demonstrate a commitment to working for social justice through a strong labour movement. […]