Labor

"All patients of all ages will be negatively impacted by service cuts, so please support privatization.”

...Saturday, July 9, 2016 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m....

Honolulu Metro Area Hits All-Time April Construction Employment High as Employers add 5,000 New Jobs....

...Will HGEA/UPW $40M Shakedown stand up in court?....

The HSTA recommends the following candidates....

...While serving in his capacity as President of Local 5 Plaintiff was suspended from his office in retaliation for criticism of Gill....

"Discarding standardized testing in teacher evaluations"

Today’s order lasts only until September 30, 2016, unless sooner terminated by the Court. The Court also ordered the parties to the lawsuit to file a joint status report on or before June 30, 2016....

...he diverted client money to his own personal use over a 17-year period....

The dispute began when the painters and glazers’ union complained to the State Contractors License Board that the contractors hired to renovate Lanakila Elementary School in 2005 were installing jalousie windows....

The Business Manager and other members of the staff, including several family members of the Business Manager, submitted and/or were reimbursed for numerous expenses that were not authorized by Local 1260 and/or were for personal expenses for which no legitimate union business was conducted....

After a decade of ILWU disruption, shippers are routing more cargo through U.S. Gulf and East Coast ports....

"...most likely symbolic, as it is apt to be uncollectable...."

Ige has appointed Darrel Galera as chairman of the Governor’s ESSA team....

The investigative division at the Hawaii Attorney General’s Office relies heavily on retired law enforcement officers hired as temps....

...teacher unions are flat out against this because they do not want their members held accountable....

A federal judge refused the unions' request for an emergency stay in February, leading to Wednesday showdown in the Ninth Circuit....

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit lobbied hard Wednesday for Hawaii to pause its plan to privatize money-pit hospitals on Maui and Lanai....

After Friedrichs’ legal team files the petition for rehearing, they expect the court to hold the petition until a new justice is confirmed....

...a dispute about starting times....

...the bill provides a pretext for employers to demand employee passwords in the case of a suspected data breach....

... In Hawaii 42.4% of people ages 18-64 with disabilities are employed, 8th highest in USA ....

Securitas negotiated a new Airport Contract with the Hawaii Department of Transportation, Airport Division and included the wage increases as requested by IUSPO....

...Watchdog group expresses hope that there will be no more roadblocks to better patient care....

A federal judge rejected United Public Workers' emergency request to stay a law that privatizes three Hawaii hospitals and strips some 500 workers of civil-service protections....

...serving more than 75,000 full- and part-time employees statewide....

The state's largest government employees union has just announced plans to protest at a Hawaii Republican party event Tuesday, February 16 at the Ko'olau Ballrooms....

U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor refused to block the privatization after discussion on Feb. 9....

...require the state to disburse funds to an exclusive bargaining representative pursuant to a contract between a union and the state's department of budget and finance....

22.1 -- 21.8 -- 20.4% ...

Of the 31 fatal work injuries reported in Hawaii in 2014, 14 resulted from transportation incidents and 7 from falls, slips, or trips....

...transferring the operation and management of the HHSC Maui Region health care facilities from the state to Kaiser Permanente....

This morning, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to the requirement in California that government employees, such as public school teachers, pay fees to the local union even if they choose not to join the union....

I don’t know whether or not I want to cry or scream today....

The nine teachers who are suing their union in Friedrichs v. CTA are doing so because they believe that many union stances taken in collective bargaining are bad for public schoolteachers and bad for the children they teach....

...a labor dispute over the manning of the U.S. Flag containership APL GUAM which is scheduled to provide regular liner service between Yokohama, Japan, Apra Harbor, Guam, and Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands....

A federal jury on Tuesday found the state of Hawaii and the Hawaii Department of Transportation's airports division violated a former employee's civil rights....

Improved Rates Projected to Save Employers $50 Million....

The Every Student Succeeds Act passed the Senate by a margin of 85 – 12 and in the U.S. House by a vote of 359-64 in late November (this included every Democrat who voted in both the House and Senate)....

in 2014 the difference in voting pattern between absentee voters and Election Day voters was as much as 37.2% ...

Maui County continues to require drug tests as a condition of employment....

After a seven-year circus of cowardly delay, the President's decision to kill the Keystone XL Pipeline is just one more indication of an utter disdain and disregard for salt-of-the-earth, middle-class working Americans....

...at least 134 deceased persons received over-payments from the Employee Retirement System, with some over-payments in excess of $50,000....

Honolulu County had average weekly wages of $918 ranked near the middle (172nd) of the national ranking among the 342 largest counties. Nationally, the average weekly wage was $1,048 in the first quarter of 2015....

Undercover video shows Ala Moana construction workers paid in cash....

The Dole fruit and Dow chemical companies must face a lawsuit from migrant farm workers who claim they were harmed by a pesticide, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled....

"The state will negotiate in good faith to secure the best possible outcome for our citizens and for employees of the facilities involved,” said Gov. David Ige....

...plans to transition at least 99 contracts involving hundreds of jobs from from the private sector to government paid positions....

...they came to a written agreement that meets the needs of current and future members of the Hawaiian Electric Companies’ bargaining unit and strongly adheres to the core values of the IBEW....