Coast Hotels issued 72-hour lockout notice Tuesday morning to its unionized workers at its operations in Prince George, Nanaimo and Victoria, Unite Here Local 40 says.
In response, the union says it will be holding a rally at Coast Inn of the North on Wednesday, 4:30 p.m. start.
It says the lockout threat affects more than 250 workers and their families in the three cities.
Independent of the lockout notice, Laird Cronk, the new president of the B.C. Federation of Labour, has called for mediation between Unite Here Local 40 and Coast Hotels after workers at Nanaimo's Coast Bastion held a one-day strike on Saturday.
The union and the company have agreed to emergency mediation this Wednesday and Thursday. The union has set a deadline of midnight Thursday to reach a settlement and has called on the labour movement to pull business from the hotels if no deal is reached.
