Workers Hold Breakfast Rally Demanding Daily Room Sanitizing at Pinnacle Hotel
Hospitality workers organized a "Housekeepers' Morning Breakfast
Action" at 7:30 am in front of the Pinnacle Hotel in downtown
Vancouver. The purpose of the action was to alert hotel guests that
management is trying to eliminate daily room cleaning in order to cut
back on labour costs, which goes against the interests of the workers,
guests and the public alike.
 Over
a hundred workers and their supporters marched to the beat of drums,
pots and pans and other noisemakers in front of the hotel, chanting
slogans including Who's Got the Power? We've Got the Power!, with
signs saying "Save Hospitality Jobs" and "Bring Back Daily Room
Sanitizing." Red badges with the demand "Bring Back Daily
Room Sanitizing" were given to participants and passers-by, including
hotel guests, many of whom stopped to talk and were in agreement with
the demands of the workers.
A reporter for Workers' Forum, who is also a member of the
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, related a recent
experience to workers at the rally. He attended a conference of his
union at the hotel in November, during which some members of the union
were staying at the hotel. The conference had to be shut down when
one of the participants tested positive for COVID-19. This experience
underlines the importance of the demand of the workers for daily room
sanitizing.
During the action workers' message to guests was: "For our safety
and yours, may we clean your room?" Following the picket and speeches
by local leaders breakfast was served to everyone and hotel workers and
their supporters discussed how to keep up the pressure on the hotel to
protect the guests and the workers and increase the number
of workers on the job.
This article was published in
December 13, 2021 - No. 119
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/WF2021/Articles/WO081194.HTM
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