Striking hotel workers demand wages meet cost of living in Metro Vancouver

Around 200 hotel workers including room attendants, servers and front desk agents are nearing two months on strike in Richmond, B.C., demanding wages to keep up with the cost of living in the region.

“We’re just out here for fair living wages,” said Shey Lyn who for five years has worked at the Starbucks at the Sheraton Vancouver Airport hotel.

She and other workers have been picketing at the hotel, which is part of a complex of hotels near Vancouver International Airport, with several run by Larco Hospitality, including the Sheraton where workers are unionized.

The unionized workers, represented by Unite Here Local 40, have been without a collective agreement since the last expired

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