Queen Elizabeth Hotel to close for holidays due to labour dispute
Posted December 12, 2024 5:34 pm.
Quebec’s largest hotel will close for the holidays due to a labour dispute.
The Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel has announced it will temporarily close its doors starting Dec. 21 because it can’t provide its usual level of service to guests.
The move comes after the 950-room hotel locked out its unionized workers last month after they rejected a contract proposal partly due to a disagreement over the use of staffing agencies.
The hotel says workers at more than 20 other Quebec hotels have accepted a similar offer, which includes a 21 per cent wage increase over four years, including 10 per cent in the first year.
The Queen Elizabeth’s roughly 600 unionized workers have staged a number of surprise strikes in recent months.
The union accused the hotel on Thursday of using replacement workers, following the release of a Labor Department report that found hotel employees performed the tasks of unionized workers during a strike in September.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
