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Bargaining continues for first contract at Vancouver Hilton Public Notice Worksystems, Inc. (WSI) is issuing an RFP solicitation to select a provider for delivery of Labor Liaison services for the WorkSource Portland Metro system of Multnomah and Washington Counties and the City of Portland. The services will be funded with U. S. Department of Labor Adult & Dislocated Worker Program formula funds. The Request for Proposal (RFP) will be avail- able on the WSI website at www.worksystems.org beginning June 18, 2008; proposals are due by 12:00 noon Monday, July 21, 2008. To request a copy of the solicitation via U.S. mail call 503.478.7300. All funding opportunities are available at www.worksystems.org. To be notified by email of funding opportunities, please email 2008RFP@ worksystems.org and indicate that you wish to be added to the procurement notification list. If you have additional questions regarding procurement, please call (503) 478-7300. Worksystems, Inc. is an equal opportunity em- ployer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabili- ties. To place a free relay call in Oregon dial 711. VANCOUVER — Portland-based UNITE HERE Local 9 may be near to obtaining a first union contract for about 150 workers at the Hilton Van- couver Washington hotel. Workers there joined the union in June 2006 under a neutrality agreement with the hotel’s builders, but nearly two years later, most are still earning at or near Washington’s minimum wage and are without a union contract. The hotel is owned by the City of Vancouver and was built to serve Vancouver’s conven- tion center. Hilton Hotels Corporation has the contract to manage it. Bargaining sessions are scheduled for June 23-24, and Rick Sawyer, sec- retary-treasurer of Seattle-based UNITE HERE Local 8, is hopeful for a breakthrough. Sawyer is UNITE HERE's area vice president and is in charge of bargaining for the Vancouver unit. In the last month, the company reached tentative agreements on gener- ous terms with units in Portland and Seattle, and Sawyer thinks hotel man- agement is ready for labor peace after bruising boycotts in those two cities. The union didn’t boycott the Vancou- ver location because the hotel is not yet well-established, Sawyer said. At bargaining sessions in early June, the company agreed to contract features for the Vancouver unit that are standard in other UNITE HERE contracts, and all that remains is for the two sides to come to agreement on wages and ben- efits. The hotel has said the Vancouver location is unprofitable, and made fi- nancial records available to the union to back that up. UNITE HERE is trying to build re- gional solidarity among hotel workers. The new Portland and Seattle contracts were bargained to expire on the same date in 2011, and the union wants the Vancouver contract to have the same expiration date. Seattle workers have ratified their contract, and a vote is pending in Portland to do that, but Sawyer said the union may hold off on formally signing the contracts and end- ing the boycotts until all three units have reached a deal. The Washington State Labor Coun- cil has scheduled its 2008 constitutional convention at the Hilton Vancouver on Aug. 4-7. (International Standard Serial Number 0894-444X) Established in 1900 at Portland, Oregon as a voice of the labor movement. 4275 NE Halsey St., P.O. Box 13150, Portland, Ore. 97213 Telephone: (503) 288-3311 Fax Number: (503) 288-3320 Editor: Michael Gutwig Staff: Don McIntosh, Cheri Rice Published on a semi-monthly basis on the first and third Fridays of each month by the Oregon Labor Press Publishing Co. Inc., a non- profit corporation owned by 20 unions and councils including the Oregon AFL-CIO. Serving more than 120 union organizations in Ore- gon and SW Washington. Subscriptions $13.75 per year for union members. 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