Workers at Radission Blu Vancouver Airport, formerly known as Pacific Gateway Hotel, have been on strike for three years.
A Richmond hotel has received a cease and desist order after it was found to have breached the Labour Relations Code again during a strike.
In particular, Sahota heard about housekeeper Pardeep Thandi's two interactions with Rai in 2023. On the first occasion, Thandi said Rai told her she played the plastic vuvuzela horn "very well" and invited her to play the horn at his daughter's wedding. In its complaint, the union alleged Thandi became "a special target of Rai's ire" because she had done press interviews and a press conference during the strike.
Owner says he was 'simply complimenting' employee about playing the horn The hotel denied the union's allegations, arguing there was "no evidence that Rai threatened bargaining unit members to leave the union or attempted to compel or induce them to leave the union." He also said he told kitchen staff on the picket line "on a weekly basis" that there were "no more jobs for them," claiming he was " being honest with his employees and that he did not think there was anything wrong with telling them the truth."
She accepted Nijjer's evidence that Rai did make the comment about firing him and found Rai was "in fact threatening Nijjer's employment" despite not telling him explicitly to quit the union. Although Thandi testified she "did not subjectively feel threatened by Rai's comments," Sahota considered the context of the "significant power imbalance" between Thandi and Rai, the owner, as well as Thandi's role as a member of the bargaining committee and a "vocal critic of the employer."
Such comments amounted to intimidation, wrote Sahota, in the context of the frequency and manner they were made to picketing employees.
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