While there was news this afternoon that workers at the 245-room Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites in downtown Vancouver have issued 72-hour strike notice, so far 2024 has not been a particularly big year for work stoppages in B.C.
The Holiday Inn workers join hundreds of counterparts at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, the Pinnacle Harbourfront and the Westin Bayshore who are also without a contract and are demanding higher wages and better working conditions. Richmond hotel workers at the Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel have been on strike more than a year.
Overall, however, B.C. has seen comparatively few work stoppages.
Across Canada, there were a staggering 665 work stoppages in effect in
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