You have no idea about the truth. The truth is that some Honolulu City Council for their own  interests to try to push the developers' Project Construction under Union's contracting. Developers think If the Union contracts the project, the cost will increase 200%-300%, because Union's labor payment is $70-$80/hour. However, the labor price in market of Hawaii is $30-$40/hour. Therefore, the developers does not expect cost of their own project more than their planning cost just like Honolulu light rail train program . Honolulu 20 mile-long light rail train, the market price only need 50 Billion dollars. However, this program needs 110 Billion Dollars now.  Currently, The government of Honolulu is troubled by these 30 Billion dollars difference and is planning to improve the consumption tax and hotel tax. With Honolulu Council's 5 votes, 4 Votes against, this bill property tax increase was approved on May 05,2017. All these actions is for the refinance for light rail train program.(1/3)