A Hotel Union Is Trying to Influence the Vancouver Election (opens in new tab)

is a BC hospitality workers’ union: hotels, airports, food service. In 2026 they became one of the most active forces at Vancouver City Hall, and they’ve been pretty explicit that the goal is to affect the outcome of October’s election. The especially weird part is that they’re spending an enormous amount of time and money mostly opposing new hotels. Not asking for better wages, not asking that they be union-operated, just opposing hotels using whatever argument might stick. This post is an a...