Bargaining continues for first
contract at Vancouver Hilton
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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.
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