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CTV News
02-07-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Best Western Plus workers ‘disappointed' strike extends over a month
Best Western Plus has been on the picket line for more than a month as the strike presses on. Workers at the Best Western Plus in downtown Windsor have now been on the picket line for more than a month. 'The workers are very disappointed that, this employer hasn't come back to the bargaining table to address their need,' Emile Nabbout, Unifor Local 195 President. About 37 workers walked off the job on June 1 after failing to reach an agreement. According to the union, the employer is offering just under $19 per hour. Workers previously voted overwhelmingly against what the company described as it's 'final offer.' Nabbout says he wants to see the company return to the table.
CTV News
03-06-2025
- Business
- CTV News
‘Scab' workers brought to downtown Windsor hotel on second day of Unifor strike
Workers strike in front of Windsor's Best Western Plus hotel on Riverside Drive West in Windsor, Ont. on June 3, 2025. (Michelle Maluske/CTV News Windsor) Replacement workers went to the Best Western Plus hotel on Monday, according to company and union officials, leading to Windsor police being called to the picket line. 'They (workers) were not happy and excited to see somebody blatantly crossing the picket line,' Unifor Local 195 President Emile Nabbout told CTV News Tuesday. 'They were asking those who scab to refrain from entering the facility.' Nabbout did not have further details but said an 'altercation' occurred. Tyler McDiarmid, a spokesperson for Ironwood Management Corp., is alleging an assault occurred, but Windsor police will only say they are investigating. Ironwood operates the Best Western Plus for Farhi Holdings Corp. It's a tense start to a strike that only started on Sunday morning, to back contract demands for 40 people. Both the company and the union said wages are a key stumbling block in negotiations. 'The vast majority of hotel workers are not compensated as well as the workers at the Best Western Plus,' McDiarmid told CTV News in a statement, adding they have increased pay in the last three years despite soaring costs. That's a comment Nabbout disputes. '$18.02 is not even a living wage. You cannot even put the Kraft Dinner on the table to support your family,' Nabbout said. 'And now, the employer (has) the audacity to say this (offer) on the table, it is more than fair?' The union is also accusing the company of trying to claw back bereavement leave while the company is critical of the union for not taking their final offer to the workforce. The strike at Best Western Plus on Riverside Drive started on Sunday.
