Labor

...The contract features 10.65% wage hikes over four years and a reopener for years three and four -- conveniently timed for after the next gubernatorial election....

Texas has no personal income tax....

... DoE student absenteeism is caused by DoE teacher absenteeism ....

...Sacco’s column was in response to U.S. Senator John S. McCain’s introduction on July 13, 2017, of Open America’s Waters Act of 2017....

Hawaii may be giving millennials the short end of the stick when it comes to the state’s unfunded public pension liabilities....

...The shift out of DOTax is just a scam to justify vetoing HB1414 which mandated an audit of the State's decade-long series of IT debacles....

...reporting on the expiration of two maritime union contracts with Matson....

All employers need a few basic freedoms to be productive, among them the freedom to manage their employees....

...Hawaii recently became the first state to make a major push towards a universal basic income....

It really comes down to workers not getting much out of their paychecks because of a high cost of living and high taxes....

Private security companies have worked to keep Hawaii’s airport facilities safe since 1976....

...negotiations with the public employee unions take place mostly at the state level, but the counties nevertheless are on the hook....

...DoE Priorities Reflect Teachers Union, HGEA Goals....

...for 4 years from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2021....

...boom over, Honolulu down 300 jobs....

...Shut up or we’ll make you pay for rail too....

That’s because when government salaries increase, so do pension promises....

State Senate asks OHA to convene a group of Hawaiian leaders, legal scholars, and Hawaiian community members to review whether it’d be better to appoint OHA Trustees rather than elect them....

Hawaii--Avg Annual Wage for Nurses (adj for cost of living) – 51st

...previous historians had relied on an abstract of the trial prepared by defense lawyers....

...Construction employment in Urban Honolulu dropped 4% from 28,400 in March, 2016 to 27,200 in March, 2017 for a net loss of 1,200 jobs....

Ninety-eight percent of the nearly 8,000 members of HSTA who cast ballots across the state today voted to ratify a new four-year contract....

IRS Ruling: Act 1 Cash Payout to HGEA members would cost ERS its nonprofit status .... 

HSTA members are very grateful to Gov. David Ige for personally taking part in negotiations over several days to help us....

The 30-day public comment period begins today, Tuesday, April 18, and will run through Thursday, May 18, 2017....

...business and education partners including the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) and the Hawaii Carpenters Apprenticeship and Training Fund....

For Randy Perreira, head of the Hawaii Government Employees Association, the problems at Hawaii’s airports are just a matter of not enough kumbaya....

...this study appeared to be an outgrowth of a move by our teachers’ union....

...bills heard this week (HB76, HB233, and HB234) attempt to amend the law passed last summer by adding new severance options for the hospital employees....

... Kupuna Caregivers $70/Day Appropriation SB534 / HB607 ....

The "shall make sufficient sums available" language is used in one more place in our constitution. It's in Article XII, Section 1, relating to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands....

This measure, the so-called Fair Pay and Safety Workplaces rule, would have allowed government officials to debar, or blacklist, construction companies from bidding on federal projects based on the mere allegation of labor law violations without any due process....

County workers throughout the state make higher wages than nearly all of their mainland counterparts adjusted for the cost of living....

The work stoppage was in apparent violation of the contract between the Hawaii Stevedore industry and the ILWU....

...Unsustainable government salaries and pensions are worsening the crisis....

SB107 would raise the minimum wage 62% from $9.25 / hour ....

...if the minimum wage was increased, many grocery stores today would simply replace workers with automated tablets....

 ...$9,450 a year more without spending a penny....

...Randall Roth comments on two stories on the DoE investigation into education reform advocate John Sosa which ran on KHON Feb 6 and Feb 7....

...the department has chosen to support Senate Bill No. 424 and House Bill No. 456....

...UHERO: ‘Discriminatory’ HSTA Property Tax Plan hits Renters Hardest....

...Must read: AG responds to 9 questions from Ing.  Short version of responses: “No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, and No.”....

Hawaii is missing $23 billion ....

to lobby for a constitutional amendment that will drastically increase property taxes....

...Honolulu County workers make more than neighbor island workers....

Is a 7% return on investment sustainable into the future? Another organization that studied the issue said that a more realistic rate of return would be the “risk-free” rate, which they calculated at 2.344%....

New York continued to have the highest union membership rate (23.6 percent), Hawaii and Alaska are tied for second at 21.7 percent each....

...an owner of an investment property in Honolulu worth less than half a million dollars can expect to see his (her) combined City and State property tax bill double....

Salaries and benefits of Hawaii government workers have increased by 26 percent in the past decade....