Finance committee  Being permanently laid off is being fired. It's just a different way of saying it.

Finance committee  I personally cannot speak of that because my children are so old now that I wouldn't be able to take advantage of it or even use it at any point.

Finance committee  Fair enough. It is help, but there needs to be.... It branches out in so many directions. You cannot just hit one branch and expect all the apples from the tree to fall at the same time. That is a great start, but I feel there is a place for improvement.

Finance committee  Yes, sir, that is correct.

Finance committee  The Red Cross has been doing work inside, and they also contracted out another company to do some cleaning in the hotel. Only 30 workers have been called back since January of this year.

Finance committee  No, there hasn't really been a clear answer to that. It all falls down to lack of training, which I don't believe. We have thousands of hours of training, and we are extremely trainable. We are very good at our jobs. Housekeepers can do it with their eyes closed. There was just

Finance committee  Yes, and after the pandemic, they want to replace us at minimum wage. For example, someone makes $21 an hour. They want to reduce that person's wage to $15.20. They want to remove the union health care plan and incorporate their own, which the employee pays for. They also want to

Finance committee  Significantly. I can see that my children behave differently, because they feel the stress of it too.

Finance committee  I am currently on EI. If you're on EI, you don't apply. You cannot get the CERB. It's either-or. Where I see myself is continuing to fight to get my job back with living wages, with health care and with seeing my co-workers being able to retire from the jobs they gave 46 years o

Finance committee  We haven't received any response from them.

Finance committee  Absolutely. It is not a true statement. It is just what we have heard through the grapevine. Both the federal government and the hotel have been very tight-lipped about how much they're actually receiving on a monthly basis.

Finance committee  We have been trying to figure out how much the federal government is giving the hotel, but they are keeping that very secret. The number we've heard is between $500,000 a month and over a million dollars a month.

Finance committee  Yes, a month. That's what people have heard through the grapevine, but we haven't been able to get real information on that because the government and the hotel have refused to give that information to the union. What was your other question?

Finance committee  It has impacted everybody's family. I don't have a mortgage, but I know many of my co-workers do, and they're on the verge of losing their homes. I'm living on a day-to-day basis financially because, as much as I appreciate the EI and CERB, those subsidies are not enough with the

Finance committee  Can you hear me now? Is this better?