Entries by Michelle Travis

MEDIA ADVISORY: UNITE HERE Local 40 to Hold Press Conference to Address Hilton Vancouver Metrotown’s Lockout Threat; Burnaby Mayor to Join in Support of Fired Hotel Workers

UNITE HERE Local 40 will host a press conference today to address Hilton Vancouver Metrotown’s 72-hour lockout notice which was served this morning. Last week, the hotel terminated 22 long-term workers — bringing total job losses to nearly 100. Workers have been on partial strike since February 2021. Several large union customers, BC Teachers Federation, […]

Press Release: Big Union Customers Vow Not to Patronize Hilton Vancouver Metrotown

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 […]

PRESS RELEASE: Pan Pacific Vancouver Workers Question Hotel Over Expiring COVID-19 Layoff Extensions: Are You Firing More of Us as Recovery Nears?

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 […]

MEDIA ADVISORY: COVID-19 Layoff Extensions Expiring at Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel; Women ask Pan Pacific: Are You Firing More of Us as Recovery Nears?

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 […]

PRESS RELEASE: Workers from Quarantine Hotel Ready to Strike: “PM Trudeau, will you cross our picket line when we strike, or will you say ‘no’ to unequal women in the hotel industry?”

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 […]