Hospitality workers at Kitimat’s Cedar Valley Lodge, which houses workers on the LNG Canada project, have voted in favour of strike action.
Roughly 97 percent of workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 40 and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers voted for the move.
It comes following what the unions call little movement by employer Sodexo to address cost of living concerns brought up in bargaining.
While trades workers at the camp received a 12.5 percent wage increase in 2022, and a 10 percent increase last year, lodge workers were left out.
According to UNITE HERE, some workers at the site are making $5 an hour less than they did at the Kitimat Modernization Project eight years ago.
With the camp accomodating a peak of up to 5,000 workers, a strike could cause significant disruptions to work at the LNG Canada site.
Mediation between the unions and Sodexo began yesterday.
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