Staff feeding and housing oil and gas workers in northern B.C. are preparing for a possible strike.
Hospitality employees at the Crossroads Lodge work camp near Kitimat, B.C., are in contract talks with operator Horizon North — but have been on strike notice ever since members approved job action on Aug. 1.
The union representing them said most of the workers are immigrants as well as Indigenous people, and many of them are women.
“The workers that we represent tend to be the lowest-paid workers at the camps,” said Michelle Travis, research director with UNITE HERE Local 40, in an interview Friday.
“Billions of dollars are being invested in these projects … they
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