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Entries by Michelle Travis

PRESS RELEASE: Pan Pacific Workers Bring Second Class Action Lawsuit Over Breach of Contract

For Immediate Release April 12, 2021 Employer reneges on promise to extend health benefits after inducing workers to sign away their severance rights Vancouver, BC — Today, hotel workers filed a class action lawsuit against the Pan Pacific Vancouver for reneging on its contractual agreement to maintain their health benefits during the pandemic. Pan Pacific […]

PRESS RELEASE: Hilton Metrotown Files 72-hour Lockout Notice; Burnaby Mayor, Unions, Community Groups Throw Support to Hotel Workers

Vancouver, BC – Today, UNITE HERE Local 40 held a press conference with Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley, BC Teachers Federation President, Teri Mooring, and other labour and community leaders to blast Hilton Metrotown for issuing 72-hour lockout notice this morning and recently terminating almost 100 long-term workers. Hilton Metrotown could lockout workers as early as […]

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 […]