UNITE HERE Local 40 is recruiting a full-time Campaign Researcher to conduct research, develop strategy, and move campaigns to win justice for BC’s hospitality workers.
UNITE HERE Local 40 is B.C.’s hospitality union and is leading the fight to organize the unorganized and at the forefront of campaigns for workers’ rights and quality jobs. We represent thousands of hospitality workers working in hotels, foodservice, remote resource camps, airports, and other venues across the province. We have a diverse membership that includes workers from many immigrant communities, and the majority of our members are women. Together, we are building a movement to empower working people to achieve greater power and opportunity.
Campaign researchers work closely with organizing staff and expected to work long and irregular hours to support campaigns.
Responsibilities include:
Conduct company, industry and real estate research using a wide variety of databases and online sources, as well as field work.
Develop and carry out campaign strategies and tactics.
Develop analyses and adapt them for various audiences (e.g., leadership & staff, workers, investors, political & regulatory bodies, and the public).
Identify and analyze new development projects in our industries and engage with relevant stakeholders.
Work directly with members to support them on workplace issues.
Communicate with a wide variety of players including community organizations, industry representatives, customers, policy makers, journalists and elected officials.
Work with UNITE HERE members, organizers, staff, allies and elected leaders to move campaigns forward through organizing, leading actions, and doing political work, as needed.
Qualifications include:
Activist experience and demonstrated commitment to fighting for workers’ rights.
BA degree and relevant research and/or organizing experience (e.g., labour, political, or community)
Strong analytical skills, writing, computer, and interpersonal skills
Willingness to work long and sometimes irregular hours; travel will be required.
Proficient with database and word processing software
Ability to take initiative, learn quickly, work well on a team, and handle competing priorities with deadlines.
Driver’s license
UNITE HERE Campaign Researchers have worked in the past as community and union organizers, journalists, urban planners, teachers, and researchers elsewhere.
Please be prepared to include in your application:
Cover letter—Please be sure to let us know why you’re motivated to fight for workers’ rights and share any experience you have with hospitality industry or service sector work.
Resume
Writing sample
Three references—preferably individuals who have supervised your work.
Salary: Starting salary is $64,000.
Please send application materials to Michelle Travis at [email protected]. Only candidates meeting all requirements will be contacted for interviews.
UNITE HERE Local 40 is a progressive labor union at the forefront of battles for workers’ rights, living wages, and quality jobs in cities throughout British Columbia. At UNITE HERE, we believe that “one job should be enough.” Defying standards in a hospitality industry otherwise dominated by low wages and no job protections, our members win wages and benefits that change lives and transform communities.
Communications Specialists are embedded in worker campaigns and play a crucial role in designing comprehensive communications strategies using digital platforms, earned media, and multi-media tools to raise the visibility of worker struggles. You can be part of a team that empowers people in low-wage service sector jobs to achieve better wages and benefits, dignity and basic rights at work.
Job Responsibilities (include but not limited to):
Framing messages and developing materials for effective communication with the news media, the general public, union members, and other working people and allies.
Developing, planning and leading communication strategies and calendars for organizing, contract and other advocacy campaigns.
Developing and implementing proactive earned media outreach in traditional and new media, planning and organizing media events, and training workers to be spokespersons.
Writing leaflets, bulletins, website and e-advocacy content, news releases, fact sheets, talking points, speeches, paid ads, and other materials.
Managing the production of internal member communications, including newsletters, electronic communications using mass texting and email services, and more.
Producing multi-media content for communications, such as photographs and short videos.
Maintaining and updating content to websites, social media feeds, and internal electronic archives.
Expanding the Union’s strategic use of digital communications and new social media.
Collaborating with leaders from other departments in the development of campaign communications strategy and content.
Working with outside consultants or vendors on special projects.
Ensuring that all communication is consistent and reflects the Union’s strategic vision.
Editing and revising all communications content as necessary.
Job Requirements/Qualifications:
Minimum of one year of work experience in media relations, public affairs, or campaign communications
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to frame issues for specific audiences and develop simple, effective advocacy materials
Demonstrated commitment to social justice
Prior work experience with grassroots advocacy campaigns
Proficient with Microsoft Word/Excel
Experience with creative media production in one or more of the following areas is preferred: web development, graphic design, photography or video production/editing
Experience using Mobile Commons or Action Network a plus
Experience using Adobe Creative Suite software (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) or Final Cut Pro a plus
Salary: Starting rate is $64,000.
Benefits: Benefits include extended medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage, pension, and paid time off.
Please be prepared to include in your application:
Cover letter — Please be sure to let us know why you’re motivated to fight for workers’ rights and share any experience you have with hospitality industry or service sector work.
Resume
Writing sample
Three references—preferably individuals who have supervised your work.
Contact: Interested applicants should send an application to [email protected]. Only candidates meeting all requirements will be contacted for interviews.
The Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver is giving its workers a deadline to sign away their current working conditions to become casual, on-call staff and their rights to claim severance. The hotel cites the pandemic as an excuse to force workers to sign away their labour rights.
Zailda Chan, UNITE HERE Local 40 president, blasted the Pan Pacific Hotel for forcing workers to sign away their rights and said the Province shares the blame: “This is yet another egregious example of a hotel employer taking advantage of the pandemic to strip away workers’ rights. Is this what the Province and Tourism Minister Lisa Beare have in mind when they say they expect employers to work with their laid-off employees? The Province must take responsibility for protecting workers laid-off due to Covid. Otherwise, thousands more workers will be stripped of their rights and fired.”
Last month, Premier Horgan called on employers to do the right thing and keep their workforce intact. The Premier said that if the government needs to take steps in the legislature to protect workers, they will do so. Tourism Minister Lisa Beare continues to remain silent when pressed on what she will do to support tourism workers.
UNITE HERE Local 40 is the hospitality workers’ union and represents members in the hotel, food service and airport industries throughout British Columbia. Learn more at UniteHereLocal40.org.
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-Overtime- 1.5x after 8 hours, 1.5x on Saturdays 2x on Sundays
Pension
-Local 40 Civeo Pension: $3.85/hour
Benefits
-Local 40 Benefits- 100% Paid by company
-Note: Local 40 benefits are far superior to Sodexo/Steelworker proposal
Housekeeping Workload
-# Rooms: 8hr-20 rooms 10hr-24 rooms
-Each check out counts for 2 rooms
-Each linen change counts for 1.5 room
-Rooms Clean every day
Travel- Flights paid for 100% by the company
Compensation for Locals
-50 cent/Km travel pay
-Child Care Subsidy
-Options for locals to stay in camp
Note: most of what is in this proposal, has already been won by Local 40 members in Kitimat. A $40 billion contract has more than enough money to meet our demands.
On March 30, 2020, UNITE HERE leadership from across Canada held a tele-press conference to speak on the unprecedented economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis on workers nationwide. Listen to a complete recording of the conference. For press coverage, see below:
Job Posting: Campaign Researcher
UNITE HERE Local 40 is recruiting a full-time Campaign Researcher to conduct research, develop strategy, and move campaigns to win justice for BC’s hospitality workers.
UNITE HERE Local 40 is B.C.’s hospitality union and is leading the fight to organize the unorganized and at the forefront of campaigns for workers’ rights and quality jobs. We represent thousands of hospitality workers working in hotels, foodservice, remote resource camps, airports, and other venues across the province. We have a diverse membership that includes workers from many immigrant communities, and the majority of our members are women. Together, we are building a movement to empower working people to achieve greater power and opportunity.
Campaign researchers work closely with organizing staff and expected to work long and irregular hours to support campaigns.
Responsibilities include:
Qualifications include:
UNITE HERE Campaign Researchers have worked in the past as community and union organizers, journalists, urban planners, teachers, and researchers elsewhere.
Please be prepared to include in your application:
Salary: Starting salary is $64,000.
Please send application materials to Michelle Travis at [email protected]. Only candidates meeting all requirements will be contacted for interviews.
Job Posting: Communications Specialist
UNITE HERE Local 40 is a progressive labor union at the forefront of battles for workers’ rights, living wages, and quality jobs in cities throughout British Columbia. At UNITE HERE, we believe that “one job should be enough.” Defying standards in a hospitality industry otherwise dominated by low wages and no job protections, our members win wages and benefits that change lives and transform communities.
Communications Specialists are embedded in worker campaigns and play a crucial role in designing comprehensive communications strategies using digital platforms, earned media, and multi-media tools to raise the visibility of worker struggles. You can be part of a team that empowers people in low-wage service sector jobs to achieve better wages and benefits, dignity and basic rights at work.
Job Responsibilities (include but not limited to):
Job Requirements/Qualifications:
Salary: Starting rate is $64,000.
Benefits: Benefits include extended medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage, pension, and paid time off.
Please be prepared to include in your application:
Contact: Interested applicants should send an application to [email protected]. Only candidates meeting all requirements will be contacted for interviews.
Breaking: Pan Pacific Hotel Forcing Workers to Sign Away Their Rights?
BREAKING NEWS:
The Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver is giving its workers a deadline to sign away their current working conditions to become casual, on-call staff and their rights to claim severance. The hotel cites the pandemic as an excuse to force workers to sign away their labour rights.
According to a document obtained by UNITE HERE Local 40, workers at the non-union Pan Pacific have been given a deadline of today, Tuesday, July 14. A copy of the agreement can be found here: https://www.uniteherelocal40.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Pan-Pacific-Agreement.pdf
Zailda Chan, UNITE HERE Local 40 president, blasted the Pan Pacific Hotel for forcing workers to sign away their rights and said the Province shares the blame: “This is yet another egregious example of a hotel employer taking advantage of the pandemic to strip away workers’ rights. Is this what the Province and Tourism Minister Lisa Beare have in mind when they say they expect employers to work with their laid-off employees? The Province must take responsibility for protecting workers laid-off due to Covid. Otherwise, thousands more workers will be stripped of their rights and fired.”
Last month, Premier Horgan called on employers to do the right thing and keep their workforce intact. The Premier said that if the government needs to take steps in the legislature to protect workers, they will do so. Tourism Minister Lisa Beare continues to remain silent when pressed on what she will do to support tourism workers.
UNITE HERE Local 40 is the hospitality workers’ union and represents members in the hotel, food service and airport industries throughout British Columbia. Learn more at UniteHereLocal40.org.
Contact: Michelle Travis, [email protected], 778-960-9785
Local 40 Sodexo Proposal: 3 Year Agreement
Wage Increases
-Immediate $4-5 increase (equal to KMP contract)
-$1 increase every year thereafter
Overtime/Shifts
-10 hour guarantee for those who want it
-Overtime- 1.5x after 8 hours, 1.5x on Saturdays 2x on Sundays
Pension
-Local 40 Civeo Pension: $3.85/hour
Benefits
-Local 40 Benefits- 100% Paid by company
-Note: Local 40 benefits are far superior to Sodexo/Steelworker proposal
Housekeeping Workload
-# Rooms: 8hr-20 rooms 10hr-24 rooms
-Each check out counts for 2 rooms
-Each linen change counts for 1.5 room
-Rooms Clean every day
Travel- Flights paid for 100% by the company
Compensation for Locals
-50 cent/Km travel pay
-Child Care Subsidy
-Options for locals to stay in camp
Note: most of what is in this proposal, has already been won by Local 40 members in Kitimat. A $40 billion contract has more than enough money to meet our demands.
UNITE HERE! Canada Responds to COVID-19 Crisis
On March 30, 2020, UNITE HERE leadership from across Canada held a tele-press conference to speak on the unprecedented economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis on workers nationwide. Listen to a complete recording of the conference. For press coverage, see below:
Canadian Press – Hospitality workers ‘hit first and hit hardest’ says union seeking more support
CTV Vancouver (with video) – Hospitality workers call for financial support in face of mass layoffs
CBC – Hospitality workers’ union says 90% of members have lost their jobs in past 2 weeks
News1130 – BC hospitality workers’ union calls government wage subsidy approach a ‘bailout for businesses’
CTV Toronto – Nearly 90% of hospitality workers will lose jobs because of covid-19 pandemic, union predicts
Global News – COVID-19: Hospitality union offers help as hotels considered as makeshift hospitals
Victoria News – Canadian COVID-19 round-up: Air Canada cuts 15,000 jobs, 90% of flights