In a recent Island Voices column, ILWU and Local 5 officials asked Legislators to help set hotel standards (“Lawmakers must set hotel standards,” Star-Advertiser, Sept. 22). As a former union official with the Hawaii State Teachers Association (HSTA), the purpose of our collective bargaining law is to negotiate salaries and working conditions. Hotel staff standards have unions to represent the members to negotiate salaries and working conditions. The Legislature’s as well as the governor’s responsibilities is to approve a bargaining unit cost package.