More than 100 employees at the Gateway Casinos facility in Burnaby in British Colombia, Canada, have voted in favour of joining the BC Government and Service Employees' Union to improve their working conditions.
The workers include servers, bartenders, cooks and kitchen staff, dishwashers, bussers and porters. They cast ballots in a vote supervised by the BC Labour Relations Board.
"We are pleased to be the union of choice for BC casino workers and we welcome these new members to our ranks," Darryl Walker, BCGEU president, said. "We’ll move quickly to address their priority issues like wages, job security and working conditions."
The move brings the number of BCGEU members at Gateway’s flagship casino in Burnaby to almost 700. The organisation also represents 500 more casino workers at Gateway facilities in the Interior.
