Labor

The goals of public and private unions are diverging....

ILWU slowdown tactics have reduced productivity at Pacific Northwest ports for more than a month and a half....

The problem has also affected other restaurant chains, as a dockworker dispute on the West Coast of the United States has reverberated across the Pacific Ocean....

...resulting in employers paying $50 million less in taxes, or $100 less per employee on average for 2015....

The BOE was set to approve a calendar submitted by the DOE until teachers presented their proposals....

West Coast ports are suffering a series of slowdowns....

DHRD’s jurisdiction consisted of 21,783 positions, of which 15,069 were civil service and 6,714 exempt....

...the state may one day be forced to break the promise it made to its employees regarding their pensions and benefits....

Hawaii has employed gimmicks to give the appearance of fiscal improvements in their entitlement programs....

Graduate students have planned a sit-in at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Campus Center to protest sudden and drastic budget cuts....

Proposed reforms to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) threaten teacher accountability....

McCartney is a former executive director of the Hawaii State Teachers Association....

...Furlough Fridays, as they ACTUALLY happened, including David Ige's role....

...Hawaii fell eight rungs from last year, tying the great state of New Jersey for the honor of being the least improved state....

Hawaii salaries are 16th highest in USA.  When adjusted for cost of living, Hawaii salaries drop to 50th....

...allow the purchase of less expensive but more efficient foreign-built ferries....

A study of labor force participation in all 50 states ranks Hawaii at 42 in the nation....

Public-sector unions can impose agency fees in 23 states....

"Shamefully, legislators have known about this impending implosion for years, at least since late 2009...."

WalletHub analyzed the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 18 key metrics....

...Starting today, the Hawaii State Teachers Association is launching a statewide informational campaign....

...the Hawai'i Campaign Commission has given the Hawaii Carpenters Market Recovery Program Fund a pass on disclosing where its contributions come from....

...OSHA and HIOSH have shared regulatory responsibility for Hawaii per an Operational Status Agreement that went into effect in September 2012....

Cult members laboring for the Imam under "Tuzuk contracts" are obligated to kick back all of their salaries beyond a bare minimum needed to survive....

The median adjusted salaries in the 60 metro areas range from $32,312 in Honolulu, Hawaii to $73,078 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin....

Since 2003, efforts have been made to facilitate the conversion of exempt positions to civil service in the Executive Branch of state government....

Even weeks after angry kupuna and union members began crowding committee hearings to protest, Takai voted 'aye' for the pension tax bill HB1092 HD1....

The largest occupational groups in Hawaii are retail sales followed by general office clerks and cashiers....

Statistics show that without income from a paying job an ex-offender often will return to criminal activity....

September 14, 2011: "The city initially claimed that rail would create 17,000 new jobs during the construction phase..."

...I believe testing issues today are sucking the oxygen out of the room....

...Judge Chen found that all of the union members' allegations regarding the Hawaiian Stabilization Fund involve state-law causes of action over which the federal court has no jurisdiction....

...0.2 percent of teachers were rated unsatisfactory, which means teachers do not show evidence of effective teacher practice, positive student outcomes....

...Rail boss Grabauskas blames "red hot" construction market for rail cost overruns, but....

...25 percent of education expenditures going to non-teacher salaries and benefits....

Field Operation Supervisors

• Current: $70,692-$80,388
• New: $89,860-$102,185

...Labor Compliance Advisors -- appointed by each government agency -- will decide whether the contractors have shown a "lack of integrity or business ethics."....

... News Release from PRP Frontgroup "Forward Progress" ....

...J N Musto, Executive Director of UHPA indicated that they had been fighting the contract language for 30 years and did reach an agreement that UH professors could maintain their position while campaigning....

...Potentially, consumers in Hawaii and Alaska could pick up the tab for Obamacare excise tax....

... the debate over evaluations has been full of false information ....

"The ACA is threatening to dismantle multi-employer health and welfare funds that provide affordable, high-quality health care...."

As your Governor, I will work with the Board to immediately place a hold on the components of the Educator Effectiveness System....

...Can anything be in worse condition than unfunded government pensions? Unfortunately, yes – and it’s called OPEB....