Vancouver, BC — A group of BC’s largest unions are pledging they will not patronize Hilton Vancouver Metrotown as long as the hotel refuses to guarantee its laid-off workers a right to return to their jobs. The BCTF, BCGEU, HEU, MoveUP, and PSAC-BC have declared they will not use the hotel or make future bookings […]
Vancouver, BC – Today, laid-off Pan Pacific Vancouver workers held a protest urging the hotel to stop a fourth round of job cuts. Over 200 Pan Pacific laid-off workers remain uncertain about their future at the hotel. The hotel applied for a variance of B.C.’s temporary layoff provisions for only 16 workers, and their 13-week […]
Press Conference & Protest to be held Today at 12PM Vancouver, BC — UNITE HERE Local 40 will hold a rally and press conference this Tuesday with Pan Pacific Vancouver hotel workers whose jobs are at risk despite COVID-19 layoff extensions. The jobs of Pan Pacific workers who escaped earlier rounds of mass terminations may […]
Vancouver, B.C. — Today, workers from the federal quarantine hotel, Pacific Gateway, held a press conference to announce they have filed 72-hour strike notice and can take strike action at any time. Workers, represented by UNITE HERE Local 40, filed the strike notice after Pacific Gateway terminated another round of long-term workers. The hotel, which […]
Vancouver, BC – On International Women’s Day, UNITE HERE Local 40 held a press conference and rally at Jack Poole Plaza to announce a new campaign highlighting the impact of pandemic firings on British Columbia’s women hotel workers. The campaign – Unequal Women: 19th Century Treatment in 21st Century British Columbia – focuses on how […]