Labor

Kathleen Morita was teaching at Hauula Elementary School in September 2007 when a custodian reported the smell of marijuana coming from her classroom. He also reported what he thought was a bottle of wine in a paper bag....

Faleomavaega got caught napping in 2007 and by the time he raced back to Washington in an effort to get us extricated, it was too late....

...7,000 well-paid waiters are being played against 7,000 underpaid dishwashers....

• DATE: Tuesday, January 07, 2014
• TIME: 10 a.m.
• PLACE: Conference Room 229, State Capitol

While expenses have been slowly increasing for health care providers, legislated payment updates have remained flat since 2011....

...BU13 salary schedules reveal a base salary scale which will top out at $148,704....

Hawaii State Teachers Association urges the Legislature to support and fund the following....

Certificates of Affiliation were presented to HSTA at the biennial Hawaii State AFL-CIO Convention on November 14....

Our state’s lower-income families are faced with almost insurmountable structural challenges to escaping poverty....

• DATE: Tuesday, December 17, 2013
• TIME: 10 a.m.
• PLACE: Conference Room 229, State Capitol

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating  the Hawaii State Hospital, hospital administrators have confirmed....

The plan on the table in Congress would raise the federal minimum wage above $10 an hour (which is higher than all existing state rates)....

...informational briefing is to provide the legislature with an update on the ERS’ financial status and actuarial valuation report prepared by Gabriel Roeder Smith and Company....

• DATE: Monday, December 09, 2013
• TIME: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
• PLACE: Conference Room 229, State Capitol

...a federal construction contract to build Phase 2 of the USARPAC Command and Control Facility at Fort Shafter....

The EEOC named Del Monte Fresh Produce's Hawaii subsidiary, which contracted with Global for approximately three years ending in 2005 to tend pineapple fields the subsidiary leased on the island of Oahu....

The National Weather Service is facing allegations of "waste, fraud and abuse" over the eviction of Pacific Tsunami Warning Center employees from their government housing....

• DATE: Thursday, November 14, 2013
• TIME: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
• PLACE: Conference Room 229 State Capitol 

Hit men, Yakuza, Hells Angels, the Chinese crime syndicate and Hawaii politicians....

...Union of Operating Engineers cavorts with international crime syndicates, spends union dues illegally and intimidates dissenters with threats of violence....

Obamacare is keeping businesses from hiring....

...Abercrombie has asked the Hawaii State Legislature to expand the agenda....

Legislation to fund pay raises for government professional and scientific employees will be introduced by House Republicans during the Special Session....

Second year: Placement of employees on their appropriate step and continuation of the step movement plan....

The Hawaii Jobs Explorer, the first interactive tool to be released as a part of the ongoing UHERO Dashboard Project, is now available for public use....

In September, Plaintiffs’ counsel was informed that the State anticipates that the earliest date on which payments can be made will be the March 5, 2014 pay date....

President Wil Okabe shares HSTA’s “Three Priorities” for 2013-2014....

...listen to Dr. Akina further discuss the problem on HPR’s “The Conversation”....

In a typical Friday afternoon “news dump,” the Treasury Department announced it could not grant unions’ request for another special Obamacare break....

...without changes to the way the ACA is implemented, there are likely to be "unintended consequences" that will hurt workers' health care coverage....

"I'm going to f*** with the environmentalists even if I don't have a dog in the fight"

For all the talk these days of how to revive our supposedly moribund American Dream, it took a college dropout-turned-actor to state the obvious....

Once they establish principles for reform, legislators can choose from a menu of options. Tinkering with existing plans is the most obvious, and sometimes the easiest....

...benefits in Hawaii average $49,175 — tops in the nation....

Grassroot Institute President Akina calls for strengthening system to improve employment incentive....

...a refrigerated food warehouse in Honolulu occupied by Unicold Corp. and nine tenants....

Musto discusses with Grassroot Institute’s president Keli’i Akina the similarities and differences between Detroit and Hawaii in light of Detroit’s recent declaration of bankruptcy....

Artates is also executive director of the Hawaii Operating Engineers Stabilization Fund...Sentencing hearings are scheduled Sept. 23....

OPEB-related corruption has been in the news for years.  For instance....

Detroit’s demise was the result of big-government, liberal policies promoted by self-interested politicians and coercive public employee unions....

Perez has faced questions about his misleading congressional testimony about his involvement in a quid pro quo deal with the city of St. Paul, Minnesota....

"The unintended consequences of the ACA are severe...."

News of the very generous pay increases granted to police officers sent shock waves through the ranks of city and county officials across the state generating calls for “revenue enhancements” or tax increases....

The Governor also signed bills that extend the voluntary foster care age to 21 as well as keep keiki safe from a parent who has been convicted of a sexual assault....