Thursday, October 13, 2016

RELEASE: Owners of Pacifica’s Rockaway Quarry and 24 Local Labor Organizations Come to Agreement To Ensure Living Wage Jobs, Local Hiring Preference, and Quality Training Will Be Part of Mixed-Use Development At The Quarry


Building & Construction Trades Council of San Mateo County, Unite Here! Local 2, and International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 856 Will Support Quarry Plan, Campaign for Measure W

Pacifica – The owners of Pacifica’s Rockaway Quarry site and the leaders of 24 local unions announced today that they had come to agreement to ensure that the mixed-use development at the Quarry site consistent with Pacifica’s Measure W would include living wages jobs for the members of the respective unions during both the construction phase and after the project is built and open.

The agreements include a local hiring preference as well to ensure that members of the construction trades and hotel/restaurant workers from Pacifica would be given preference for all jobs at the Quarry.

“These agreements ensure that working men and women in Pacifica and San Mateo County will share in the economic benefit of these projects both when they are under construction and after they are open,” said Paul Heule, Managing Director of Preserve@Pacifica, owners of the Quarry. “Our proposed plan is a major economic boost to the City of Pacifica, and these agreements make sure the working families of Pacifica directly benefit as well.”

“The highly skilled members of the 22 local union construction craft trades that are members of the Building & Construction Trades Council are looking forward to the passage of Measure W and then getting to work on building this project,” said James Ruigomez, Business Manager for the San Mateo Building and Construction Trades. “These agreements will make sure local residents will help build these projects, and that they will be built by the most highly-trained workers available in the region.”

“The hotels and restaurants envisioned as part of this project will bring major economic benefit to the City of Pacifica,” said Anand Singh, President of Unite-Here! Local 2, which represents room cleaners, restaurant workers, bell persons, servers, bartenders and other hotel workers in San Mateo and San Francisco counties. “We’re pleased that this developer also saw the benefit of ensuring the workers at these hotels and restaurants will also have a decent standard of living, with pay, benefits and retirement that will allow them to live with dignity.”

“We’re excited to partner with the owners of the Quarry to ensure neutrality for workers to select a union to represent them collectively. This will help ensure workers from Pacifica are given first opportunity to work at the proposed hotel at the site, and that all workers at the hotel will be able to support their families with fair wages and benefits,” said Mike Lagomarsino, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 856, which represents front desk and concierge employees at hotels in the region. “We all know how high the cost of living is in the Bay Area, but with these agreements, the workers at the hotel have a chance to support their families.”

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Editor’s Note – Specifically, the agreements include a letter of commitment for the developer to select a general contractor who will sign a Project Labor Agreement for the construction of the project, and a developer agreement that the hotel operator chosen to manage the hotel will adhere to a card check neutrality agreement so that employees are free to choose the unions to represent them if they desire.
  
Submitted by Jeff Flint


19 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is great! The Quarry owners just keep anteing up. Let's hold out and see what else they will offer. I'm thinking a Prius for every household. Also, a native plant garden for every yard. Maybe one or two of those solar cell phones. And don't forget the other feel-good, save-the-planet, eco friendly trinkets they will surely throw in. This is great! I'll take doors number 1,2 and 3. Hell, maybe they can even bring Trigger back from the glue factory - sky is the limit! I just love bribes over substance. They sure know how to talk to us Pacificans. Todd, have you looked at your Christmas stocking lately? And Nancy, I think there's someone name Steinway who's now living in your garage/music room. And Peter, ...

Anonymous said...

unions got a better deal than the rest of Pacifica. Unions got a signed agreement; Pacifica got zip.

Union YES, Deidre NO said...

Wait a minute. Didn't Deirdre say she was expecting an endorsement and campaign contributions from LOCAL 2?
Do they not realize that the Quarry Development is on her list of things to VOTE NO for?

Anonymous said...

So you're saying that Local 2 is very confused and doesn't know what they're doing?

Anonymous said...

yup. Local 2 hotel workers endorsed Deirdre so hotel workers could organize the quarry hotel but Deirdre is now using hotel workers donation to defeat said hotel. Go figure...

Anonymous said...

Measure W is not about a hotel. The quarry owner could propose a hotel and other commercial development without having to go to a vote. But residential development in the quarry must be approved by public vote. The only reason Measure W is on the ballot is to authorize rezoning of the quarry to approve 206 multi-family units 4 stories tall right on the coast.

Anonymous said...

Of course we can't have living units in Pacifica! There must be an excess and rents must be really low. Don't want a glut.

Hypocrisy must come with the no on everything mindset.

Steve Sinai said...

"The only reason Measure W is on the ballot is to authorize rezoning of the quarry to approve 206 multi-family units 4 stories tall right on the coast."

I like the way you phrase that, making it sound like there will be 206 apartments, each 4 stories tall.

Speaking of Martin, her minions are going crazy with illegal signs next to Highway 1 on and off ramps. I guess they can't find private property owners who will display her signs.

Anonymous said...

5:56

The gang of no is in Deidre's corner. Thus she will win


Anonymous said...

Trying to understand the logic of the people commenting against this plan. Someone help me please. How is the developer both "greedy" and "won't really build the hotel." If the developer is greedy, wouldn't they build the hotel? You know, to satisfy that greed. Unless you believe people who build hotels on the coast in California are losing money...

Anonymous said...

The money's in building residential, not in building commercial/hotel. Simple as that. That's the whole reason for Measure W. If there were mucho buckos to be made building a hotel and commercial, he would have gone ahead and done that. Didn't need a vote.

Anonymous said...

@10:14 AM - no one disputes the developer wants to build the residential. But there is money to be made building the hotel too. Opponents of the development claim the developer will build the housing and leave. That makes no sense. I suspect he will build both. Please state a rational reason why the developer wouldn't build both.

Anonymous said...

The risk is that if Measure W passes, the quarry owner could build the apartments and sell the commercial and hotel development to another developer and it never gets built. He could also sell the land with the entitlements for residential to another developer. Another scenario is that no hotel operator can be found for the proposed hotel so it never gets built, or a hotel operator demands many changes to the hotel design, size, location, etc. There are many scenarios in which the quarry owner does not build the apartments and the hotel at the same time and only one scenario in which he builds both. Probabilities being what they are, especially in the world of development and finance, smart money would be on the residential and hotel not being built by the same developer at the same time.

Deirdre is a phoney said...

4:27 Deirdre, Keener and Digre don't want anything built in Pacifica. Period. That's the rationale.
Are you paying attention Local 2? Deirdre Martin is playing you for suckers.

Anonymous said...

Quarry developer is playing the unions for suckers.

Anonymous said...

Lucky someone wants to provide housing on a eyesore quarry!

Anonymous said...

206 apartments in 4-story building in quarry = eyesore

Anonymous said...

8:24 Your home is an eyesore. Tear it down and build a public pool for froggies

Anonymous said...

The eyesore is in the eye of the beholder.