Vancouver Women Leaders, UNITE HERE Local 40 Release Unequal Women Report Vancouver, B.C. — Today, Vancouver women leaders representing municipal, women’s, and labour groups joined UNITE HERE Local 40 in a press conference to release a new report: Unequal Women – Report on the Impact of Pandemic Terminations on Women of Colour in B.C.’s Hospitality […]
Virtual Press Conference to be held Today, 10AM REGISTER HERE: https://unitehere-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oTpY_W4UQwWapiMRqxGiIg Vancouver women leaders representing municipal, women’s, and labour groups will join UNITE HERE Local 40 for a press conference this Friday, December 3, to launch a new report highlighting the impact of pandemic terminations on women of colour in the hospitality industry. The report […]
Rally at Hilton Vancouver Metrotown this Thursday WHO: Over 8,000 UNITE HERE hospitality workers across Canada and U.S. WHAT: Hilton Metrotown and other Vancouver area hotel workers to hold a rally with community allies as part of day of action across 29 cities. WHERE: (In B.C.) Hilton Vancouver Metrotown, 6083 McKay Ave, Burnaby WHEN: Thursday, […]
The next Local 40 membership meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 27, 2021, at 5 pm, at the Pinnacle Hotel, 1133 W Hastings St, Vancouver. Special membership meetings will also take place: If you work outside the Lower Mainland, on Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 5 pm, on Zoom (Meeting ID: 821 3824 0671; […]
Vancouver, B.C. — Several hotel housekeepers have filed a human rights complaint against the Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel over sex and racial discrimination on behalf of women affected by mass firings. The complaint alleges that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the hotel’s mass terminations disparately impacted women of colour while men’s jobs were more likely to […]