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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.