Seattle Commons — The Case For

Why this is a win for UNITE HERE Local 8 (Hotel Workers)

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The Win

Your members work in hotels that pay 7% lodging tax — a permanent cost disadvantage against Bellevue and other non-Seattle competitors. Every dollar of lodging tax that goes to service a dark building is a dollar that makes Seattle hotel rooms more expensive and your members' jobs less secure. A restructured PFD, with stabilized finances, reduces the risk of emergency lodging tax increases. And a commons-activated Arch generates a different kind of visitor — cultural tourists who fill rooms without competing for the same convention calendar. More room nights, more shifts, better security.

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I want to analyze this proposal from the perspective of UNITE HERE Local 8 (Hotel Workers). There's a civic proposal to convert the WSCC Arch building at 7th & Pike into a year-round public commons operated by Seattle Center. The case being made to UNITE HERE Local 8 (Hotel Workers): Your members work in hotels that pay 7% lodging tax — a permanent cost disadvantage against Bellevue and other non-Seattle competitors. Every dollar of lodging tax that goes to service a dark building is a dollar that makes Seattle hotel rooms more expensive and your members' jobs less secure. A restructured PFD, with stabilized finances, reduces the risk of emergency lodging tax increases. And a commons-activated Arch generates a different kind of visitor — cultural tourists who fill rooms without competing for the same convention calendar. More room nights, more shifts, better security. The full proposal: https://commons.conventioncityseattle.com What are the strongest arguments for and against, from UNITE HERE Local 8 (Hotel Workers)'s perspective?
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The lodging tax burden and Bellevue exposure → Labor's role in the political path →