For Immediate Release – August 13, 2020 Victoria, BC – Fasting hotel workers welcomed two prominent visitors to their encampment at the BC Legislature yesterday – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Victoria MP Laurel Collins. The MPs stopped by to share words of encouragement and support with the fasters on the fourth day of their […]
For Immediate Release – August 13, 2020 Statement by Zailda Chan, UNITE HERE Local 40 President, regarding Minister of Labour’s Announcement on Temporary Layoff Provisions: “While today the province announced steps they are taking to ease the process for employers to delay severance payments to benefit the business community–weeks prior to the August 31st expiration– we have been informed […]
For Immediate Release – August 12, 2020 #Fast4OurJobs continues outside BC Legislature Vancouver, BC — Today B.C. hotel workers enter the third day of their hunger strike outside the BC Legislature. To support fasting hotel workers, Vancouver City Councillor Jean Swanson will participate in a public fast outside the office of NDP MLA for Vancouver-West […]
For Immediate Release – August 11, 2020 Victoria, B.C. — The second day of the hotel workers’ hunger strike was met with an abrupt reprisal from the BC Legislature. Today, the fasters and their supporters had planned to peacefully observe Question Period proceedings inside the BC Legislature as one of several activities planned for hunger strikers […]
For Immediate Release: August 10, 2020 Victoria, B.C. — Today, workers hard-hit by the pandemic launched an open-ended hunger strike outside the BC Legislature to draw attention to the crisis facing the province’s 50,000 laid-off hotel workers. Fasters have encamped at the Legislature and are forgoing food until the government grants a legal right to return […]