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Marathon Vancouver airport hotel strike ends after 1,411 days
Years-long strike ends in new collective agreement for Radisson Blu Vancouver Airport Hotel staff
The Canadian Press · Posted: Mar 17, 2025 11:45 AM CDT | Last Updated: March 17
Pacific Gateway Hotel is seen in Richmond, B.C., Thursday, March 11, 2021. The hotel is now called the Radisson Blu Vancouver Airport Hotel. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-airport-hotel-strike-ends-1.7485631
The union representing workers at the Radisson Blu Vancouver Airport Hotel says staff have ratified a new collective agreement, ending a nearly four-year-long strike.
Unite Here Local 40 says the 1,411-day strike was the longest in Canadian history and the agreement provides a pathway back to work for 143 workers terminated during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the hotel was called Pacific Gateway.
The union says in a statement the deal also provides job security protections and higher wages.
Local president Zailda Chan says in the statement that 70 per cent of the hotel's workers were let go during the pandemic, when the hotel was used as a quarantine site.
FULL story at link above.