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Learn more about the situation at Radisson Blu Vancouver Airport (formerly Pacific Gateway) and other related stories.
Three years on strike and counting - Canada’s longest active strike continues at a Vancouver hotel, Press Progress, May 7, 2024
Hotel workers mark third year of strike, CityNews, May 3, 2024
Richmond hotel workers mark third year of strike, Richmond News, May 3, 2024
Workers rally to mark 3-year strike, CTV News, May 3, 2024
Richmond hotel caught scabbing over a dozen times, Richmond News, September 28, 2023
Quarantine hotel co-owner misappropriated almost $16M of public funds, lawsuit alleges, CBC, September 14, 2023
Stop booking guests at Radisson Blu, striking hotel workers tell Carnival Cruises, CityNews Vancouver, August 15, 2023
Another Richmond hotel breaks labour laws during workers’ strike, Richmond News, July 27, 2023
After more than two years, Canada’s longest active strike is still going strong, Jacobin, July 10, 2023
A two-year strike tests hotel workers’ wills, The Tyee, June 15, 2023
YVR Hotel may have pocketed $33 million from quarantine, Richmond News, Feb 3, 2023
Vernon hotels’ use of immigrant worker program under investigation, Castanet.net, Aug 29, 2022
Richmond City Council bans use of airport hotel, Richmond News, June 9, 2022
The Right to Return to Work, Briarpatch, May 4, 2022 (Postscript: Hilton Metrotown agreed to reinstate 97 terminated staff and a fair contract in Spring 2022.)
Richmond quarantine hotel lost federal contract over treatment of unionized workers, Richmond News, Feb 3, 2022
Travellers returning from Africa say conditions are wretched in Canadian quarantine hotels, The Globe and Mail, Dec 6, 2021 (paywall)
Housekeeper files human rights complaint on behalf of 89 fired employees against COVID-19 quarantine hotel in Richmond, Vancouver Sun, May 30, 2021
Staff at quarantine hotel strike for laid off co-workers, CityNews, May 3, 2021
Richmond quarantine hotel workers walk out on strike, Richmond News, May 3, 2021
Women hotel workers fear replacement by minimum wage labour, Ricochet, May 8, 2021
Workers at federal quarantine hotel near Vancouver airport issue 72-hour strike notice, Vancouver Sun, March 11, 2021
Richmond quarantine hotel workers file 72-hour strike notice, claim more terminations coming, CTV News, March 11, 2021