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Strike In A Vancouver Airport Hotel: Billionaire Lalji Family Threatens Workers Only Hoping To Get A Living Wage (thenorthstar.media)

submitted 2 years ago by grte to c/canadalabour

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[–] GreatBlueHeron 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't understand why this gets so little attention. Admittedly I don't follow much news, but I only learned about it when Air Canada put me in one of these hotels back in August.

I know Facebook is evil, but it seems to be where they are "gathered". I won't link to it, but if you use Facebook you can search for "unite here local 40". Or, you could go direct to their web site: https://www.uniteherelocal40.org/

[–] Kichae 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't understand why this gets to little attention

Who's going to give labour the attention? The corporate media owned by strike busters? The public broadcaster that's been completely taken in by neoliberalism? For-profit social media with content fetching algorithms controlled by anti-union billionaires?

[–] GreatBlueHeron 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah - that makes sense. But I consider myself very left leaning and tend to follow left leaning media - still nothing.