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Posted: May 05, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 5
A cyclist rides past the dormant Ottawa Shaw Centre in April. Workers who were laid off during the pandemic are speaking out, saying they feel abandoned.(Stu Mills/CBC)
Ottawa Shaw Centre employees laid off during the pandemic say they have been discarded by their union and employer over the past 14 months.
About 40 full-time and 220 part-time workers have been out of work since March 2020 when convention business halted due to the pandemic.
It s like we don t exist, said Lynne Villeneuve, who has worked as a banquet server since 1989. You think you work in a place for so many years and they would just discard us like that? I find it hurtful and disappointing. ....

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