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When the Coast Discovery Inn opened 51 years ago, the keys were thrown into the ocean in a symbolic gesture that the hotel doors should never be closed. Now the current owner of the hotel is threatening to break that promise. On Jan. 6, Sukhy Bains, owner and general manager of the Coast Discovery Inn, gave notice to the health and hospitality union, Unite Here Local 40, that he intends to close the hotel March 7 due to financial losses, putting approximately 35 workers out of work. But Shelly Ervin, an officer with the Unite Here Local 40 union, is skeptical Bains will permanently shut down the hotel. “He has made comments he wants to open non-union so he doesn’t have to pay the employees a decent wage or benefits,” Ervin said. “These benefits are the same as approximately 60 properties throughout B.C. including the Quinsam Hotel in Campbell River. “It does not make sense that the
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