The roughly 100 unionized workers at Montreal’s W Hotel on Friday evening approved a tentative agreement reached earlier this week with management.
Members of the Syndicat des travailleuses et travailleurs du W Hôtel Montreal, affiliated with the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), voted 100 per cent in favour of the agreement during a general assembly.
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The workers will receive wage increases totaling 21 per cent over four years, the CSN reported in a statement released Saturday morning.
“The negotiation blitz on August 12 and 13 paid off, and the employer had no choice but to recognize the value of its employees’ work. The gains at W Hotel now match those of establishments from the last coordinated hotel-sector bargaining round—this is a collective victory,” said Serge Monette, president of the Fédération du commerce-CSN, in the statement.
Unionized employees—including restaurant and kitchen staff, housekeeping, front desk personnel, and valet ambassadors—staged two days of strikes on August 9 and 10. They also held a 24-hour strike on August 4.
Wages had been the primary issue in the negotiations.
“After six months of bargaining and a highly profitable tourist season, it was the least our employer could do to pay our work its fair value,” said Raphaël Gouin-Loubert, president of the Syndicat des travailleuses et travailleurs du W Hôtel Montreal, in a statement.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
