On December 14, 2006, Pacific Beach Hotel union negotiating committee members presented a petition to Outrigger CEO David Carey asking that new management company Outrigger “honor all that we have already achieved in our on-going union negotiations.” L-r: Rhandy Villanueva, Virginia Recaido, Kapena Kanaiaupuni, Lerma Ulep, Darryl Miyashiro, Carey, and union spokesperson Dave Mori. Negotiating committee members not pictured: Ruben Bumanglag, Todd Hatanaka, Cesar Pedrina, Virbina Revamonte, Larry Tsuchiyama, and Edison Yago. Also present were Local President Fred Galdones, Business Agent Karl Lindo, and organizers Ron Clough, Carmie Fontillas and Bill Udani.
WAIKIKI—Over 180 employees of the Pacific Beach Hotel and their supporters held a rally along the Lili’uokalani Avenue entrance of their hotel and marched to the Outrigger’s corporate headquarters in the Ohana East Hotel on December 14, 2006 at 4:30 pm. The workers were seeking a commitment from Outrigger to honor previous agreements reached with the management of their hotel and to continue to negotiate with their union, the ILWU Local 142, for a fair collective bargaining agreement.
A delegation of 11 members of the employee’s union negotiating committee, ILWU Local 142 president Fred Galdones, and ILWU Oahu Division Director Dave Mori met with David Carey, president and chief executive officer of Outrigger Enterprises Group. Carey told the workers that Outrigger would honor the previous agreements.
HTH Corporation owns the Pacific Beach Hotel and selected Outrigger to manage the hotel after January 1, 2007. HTH will continue to manage their other hotels, the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu and the King Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel on the Island of Hawaii.
The unionized employees, represented by the ILWU Local 142, have been negotiating for over a year on a first collective bargaining contract with HTH Corporation. The change in management means that Outrigger will step in to complete the negotiations on the contract that will cover wages, benefits and working conditions of the employees. ◆
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Local 142 election results
Union-wide elections held in November 2006 elected 25 fulltime officers, 13 members to the Local Executive Board, and 19 Delegates to the International Convention. All officers serve a term of three years, beginning January 2, 2007 and ending on January 1, 2010.
The top officers of the union remain in place. President Fred Galdones and Vice-President Donna Domingo were re-elected to serve their second terms. Guy Fujimura was elected to serve his seventh term as the union’s Secretary-Treasurer, a position he has held since 1985.
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