A federal deal to quarantine travellers was terminated at Pacific Gateway Resort in January.
Laid-off Richmond resort employees are inquiring city council for a boycott of city organization at the Pacific Gateway Lodge.
Kai Sharpe, an organizer with the hotel’s union, UNITE Listed here nearby 40, will be talking to city council on Monday inquiring the town not choose section or maintain any events at the lodge until eventually the laid-off employees are reinstated and the labour dispute is fixed.
Sharpe is also inquiring the metropolis to notify all staff members and contractors that charges incurred at the Pacific Gateway Lodge won’t be reimbursed.
The hotel was made into a quarantine centre in 2020, right after which 143 personnel were being laid off.
They have been picketing the hotel for about a calendar year.
The quarantine contract was terminated in January, nonetheless, with the Community Wellbeing Company of Canada (PHAC) declaring in a statement to the Richmond Information, in reference to the layoffs, they ended up involved about the hotel’s actions.
“…we have expressed our disappointment with Pacific Gateway and their procedure of their unionized workforce all over these challenging times. The wellness and protection of Canadians keep on being our best precedence,” said a PHAC spokesperson in a assertion to the News.
– with information from Alan Campbell/Richmond News