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Is your Montreal hotel on strike?

According to a USA Today article, all labor hell has broken loose in Montreal!

Seven Montreal area hotels have reached new labor pacts with their 1,850 workers, averting a strike set for Friday, but last-minute contract talks dragged on at 10 other hotels.
About 200 workers at the Omni hotel walked off the job Friday, joining 110 from the Crowne Plaza Metro-Centre, who were locked out last Saturday.

Some 3,000 employees, mainly receptionists, bellhops and other hotel service workers, at 17 hotels had promised to strike Friday if they did not reach new three-year agreements on wages and pensions.

Each hotel is negotiating separately with its workers, who are represented by Quebec’s Confederation of National Trade unions.

The union said strikes would not begin at the hotels still in negotiations.

Is your lodging for next week’s Just For Laughs visit in jeopardy? Check out the rest of the article and see if you can decipher the whole thing. Caution: If you call your hotel from the states, be sure and try to use an 800 number– rates from the U.S. to Canada, on most plans, run $15/hour! (We exaggerate, but not much!)