Thousands of hotel workers across Quebec are set to walk off the job on Thursday – for 24 hours.
They are turning up the pressure on their employers – as negotiations appear to have stalled.
More than 3,500 employees at 30 hotels in the province are involved in strike action.
In Montreal, nearly 20 hotels will be affected, and managers could be left to take over tasks – like check-ins and room cleaning.
Negotiations have been ongoing since April.
On Aug. 1, more than 400 employees from two Montreal hotels, the Gouverneur Place Dupuis and the DoubleTree on Jeanne-Mance Street, held a 36-hour strike.
And a few days before that, on July 28, nearly 1,000 workers at the Queen Elizabeth, Marriott Château Champlain and Bonaventure hotels in Montreal went on a surprise 24-hour strike.
The Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), which represents the hotel workers, previously said that more than 90 per cent of them voted in favour of a 120-hour strike mandate “to be exercised at the appropriate time.”
Demands from the union include a 36 per cent wage increase over four years, eliminating the use of employment agencies, reducing workloads, that employers increase their contribution to the group insurance plan, and that employees can decide how to divide tips among themselves.