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Workers at Harrison Hot Springs Resort are on strike.
Harrison Hot Springs Resort and Spa employees have walked off the job as part of a three-day strike action.
On Friday, union workers from the popular B.C. resort set up picket lines at 7 a.m. during a busy summer weekend.
UNITE HERE Local 40 says the strike action comes after bargaining broke on Thursday afternoon with little progress.
Workers are striking for fair wages and a reversal of concessions made during the pandemic, according to the union.
Zailda Chan, president of UNITE HERE Local 40, says workers want management to invest in providing top-quality jobs.
“Low wages, short staffing and workload issues affect morale and guest service. Workers are fed up, which is why they’re taking limited strike action,” says Chan.
One employee reached out to Glacier Media saying they “never imagined that a resort with so much history would go through this.”
A union representative accounts for hotel room revenues in the Fraser Valley Regional District to have grown 42 per cent since 2019.
“Yet workers have not shared equitably in those gains,” says the union representative.
As of Friday morning, the resort was sold out for the Friday night and there is a three-night minimum stay during summer.
Harrison Hot Springs Resort is owned by Aldesta Hotel Group, a subsidiary of Salience Global Holdings. Aldesta Hotels and Resorts also owns Fairmont Hot Springs Resort, luxury waterfront resorts, and two islands along the Great Barrier Reef.
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