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NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS | Raymond Thomas Cynthia Newton Melissa Haggerty James Coon Chris Frost Sydney Montanaro Get your disability application done right, right from the beginning. We help folks from the start. 820 SW Second Ave., Suite 200, Portland, OR 97204 Scott Sell September 7, 2018 | PAGE 9 Chris Thomas www.tcnf.legal Union pension funds will finance new downtown hotel Union pension funds will fi- nance a new 12-story, $50 mil- lion boutique lifestyle hotel in downtown Portland. The Moxy Hotel, a new brand by Marriott International, is expected to start construction in late October on a 7,500 square-foot lot at South- west 10th and Alder. The 140-foot-tall building will feature lots of brick, with aluminum composite material panels, fiberglass windows, and aluminum sliding doors and storefront. It will be built with all-union labor. The hotel will have 197 guest rooms — most no more than 180 square feet in size. There will be no parking, and a street level bar will double as the re- ception desk. Customers will check in with their cell phones at the bar. Cell phones also will serve as room keys. Within the open lobby will be a central kitchen and four restaurant ten- ant spaces intended for food-cart vendors. The upper floor will host a hospitality suite, and the roof will have an outdoor public patio. Howard S. Wright is the gen- eral contractor. Financing is be- ing arranged through Washing- ton Capital Management. Rep- resentatives from both organiza- tions met with the Columbia Pa- cific Building Trades Council last month for a pre-job talk. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING Teamsters get 20% raise at AMR By an 86 percent margin, mem- bers of Teamsters Portland Lo- cal 223 and Vancouver Local 58 ratified a new four-year contract at American Medical Response (AMR). The deal raises wages 20 percent over the life of the agreement. The 600-plus-member bar- gaining unit provides ambu- lance service to Multnomah and Clackamas counties in Oregon, and Clark and Cowlitz counties in Washington. The previous contract expired June 30, but was extended to Aug. 24. In late July the union took a strike authorization vote, which passed by a wide margin. With strike authorization in hand, the sides met Aug. 20-21, along with a federal mediator. On Aug. 21 the union presented its “last, best, and final” offer to AMR. “The other option was to hand them our 10-day notice to strike” said Local 223 Business Rep Dave Tully. AMR took the deal. The contract provides for raises of 3 percent on July 1, and 2 percent on Jan. 1, through 2022. The first raise is retroac- tive to July 1, 2018. The union preserved health care benefits, including a $5 office co-pay at Kaiser Permanente, and main- tained a 401 (k) retirement sav- ings plan.
