Industrial janitors are ready to walk off from LNG Canada camp in Kitimat over broken promises and poor health and safety protections during the pandemic For Immediate Release: Dec. 21, 2020 Kitimat, British Columbia — LNG Canada industrial janitors have overwhelmingly voted by 84% in favour of a strike. Frustrated with the lack of progress […]
For Immediate Release December 18, 2020 Nanaimo, B.C.— With Christmas around the corner, laid-off Coast Bastion Hotel workers have learned they may soon be fired. Thirty servers, cooks, valets and other Coast Bastion staff, including those who have served the hotel for over 30 years, will be affected. The hotel refuses to ensure long-term staff […]
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 12:30PM ET/10:30AM MT/9:30AM PT Click here to register in advance WHAT: UNITE HERE Canada, the hospitality workers union, will host an on-the-record media briefing on UNITE HERE Canada’s new report, Demystifying Canadian Hospitality Bailouts: Who Benefits, Big Banks or Working People? The report shows how the federal government’s new funding […]
For Immediate Release: December 3, 2020 The Pacific Gateway Hotel has just announced to workers that the federal takeover of the hotel as a quarantine site will be extended through March 31, 2021. Hotel management claim the government now controls the hotel and has told workers that the takeover will extend beyond workers’ right to […]
UNITE HERE Local 40 Press Release – November 25, 2020 Contact: Stephanie Fung, [email protected], 604-928-7356 Federal Government Takeover of Pacific Gateway Hotel Threatens 150 Jobs Vancouver, B.C. – Today, UNITE HERE Local 40 held a press conference and called on the federal government to prevent 150 workers from losing their jobs at the Pacific Gateway […]