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Friday, July 2, 2021 |
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UHPA Cheers Ige 'Intent to Veto'
By News Release @ 8:19 PM :: 2810 Views :: Higher Education, Labor
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... The two bills are SB589 SD2 HD2 CD1 – Relating to the University of Hawaii and HB1296 HD1 SD2 CD1 – Relating to State Funds ....
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Thursday, June 24, 2021 |
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Unemployment: Hawaii Worst Recovery from COVID
By Selected News Articles @ 9:49 PM :: 3128 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... Hawaii Unemployment Rates Are Bouncing Back Least ....
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021 |
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Unemployment 8.1% for May--Down 0.4%
By News Release @ 11:07 PM :: 3144 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... Statewide 595,300 were employed and 52,150 unemployed in May ....
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021 |
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53,000 Unemployed in Hawaiʻi, But State Chamber Dealing with Employee Shortages
By News Release @ 3:55 PM :: 3633 Views :: Labor, Small Business, COVID-19
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... in April 2021 the state of Hawaiʻi had 53,000 people unemployed and 27,415 job openings ....
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021 |
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Free Money from the Sky: Another $100 for MEUCs
By News Release @ 9:43 PM :: 3351 Views :: Labor, Small Business, COVID-19
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... Department of Labor & Industrial Relations (DLIR) today announced it will start processing MEUC applications beginning on June 17, 2021 ....
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Thursday, June 10, 2021 |
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HSTA Members Ratify 2-Year Contract
By News Release @ 5:24 PM :: 2683 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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... the short two-year duration will allow HSTA to begin this process once more in a little over a year’s time with the next permanent superintendent ....
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 |
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HGEA Membership Approves Contract
By News Release @ 9:25 PM :: 5584 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor
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... HGEA requires voter ID to cast ballot. UPW has some fun Q&A about ballot handling issues ....
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021 |
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More Free Money for HSTA: BoE Approves Shortage Differentials for 2021-22
By News Release @ 11:34 PM :: 5353 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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... Shortage differentials for classroom teachers in special education, hard-to-staff locations, and Hawaiian language immersion programs will continue through school year 2021–22 ....
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021 |
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HSTA reaches tentative contract agreement
By News Release @ 11:27 PM :: 2670 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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... ratification vote ends June 9, 2021 ....
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Sunday, May 23, 2021 |
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Teacher Payments and the “Me Too” Syndrome
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3060 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, COVID-19
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... House Bill 613, another bill that has undergone radical metamorphosis while in our Legislature. ...
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Saturday, May 22, 2021 |
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HSTA Recruiting Teachers for New Scam to Eliminate Standardized Testing
By News Release @ 9:50 PM :: 2755 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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... “This is a great opportunity for teachers to help move Hawaii from standardized assessments to project-based learning,” said Corey Rosenlee ....
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Saturday, May 22, 2021 |
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HSTA Game Plan: After Ige Vetoes HB613, BoE Will Approve $2,200 Cash Bonanza
By News Release @ 9:36 PM :: 5901 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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... Shortage differentials maintain strong BOE support HIDOE is using the differentials to recruit, retain teachers ....
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Thursday, May 20, 2021 |
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Job Search Requirement Reinstated for Unemployed
By News Release @ 8:59 PM :: 3185 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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... Hawai‘i residents currently receiving unemployment insurance benefits will again be required to prove they are searching for work starting May 30 ....
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Tuesday, May 18, 2021 |
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EEOC Collects Over $4.8 Million on Judgment in Labor Trafficking Case Against Maui Pineapple
By News Release @ 11:41 PM :: 3404 Views :: Maui County, Agriculture, Labor
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... $4.8 million has been recovered to satisfy a judgment in a national origin and race discrimination lawsuit brought by the EEOC against Maui Pineapple ....
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Monday, May 17, 2021 |
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Results of 2021 HGEA State Board Election
By News Release @ 11:38 PM :: 2086 Views :: Labor
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... results of the 2021-2023 HGEA President and Board of Directors Election ....
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Saturday, May 15, 2021 |
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Full Text: HGEA Letter to Ige Urging Veto of $29M HSTA Bonus
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 5332 Views :: Education K-12, Higher Education, Labor
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"...the Legislature disregarded collective bargaining and granted this generous cash bonus to one group of employees while making significant departmental cuts elsewhere, like in higher education, which will likely lead to layoffs...."
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Monday, May 10, 2021 |
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Hirono: Lets Use COVID Aid to Blackmail United Airlines
By News Release @ 3:19 AM :: 5818 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Labor, Tourism, COVID-19
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"... require any new PSP agreement with United Airlines or any applicant require the airline to refrain from outsourcing jobs ...."
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Thursday, April 29, 2021 |
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Surprise! Another Cash Giveaway to HSTA Members -- $2,200 This Time
By News Release @ 9:19 PM :: 4737 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii State Government, Labor
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... The payments aim for “workforce stabilization to retain teachers” and will be made to full- and half-time teachers. (Translation: Incumbent stabilization to retain HSTA endorsement for 2022.) ....
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Thursday, April 29, 2021 |
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How Bad? Labor Underutilization in Hawaii During the Pandemic
By UHERO @ 4:55 AM :: 2880 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... Hawaii led the nation with the highest percentage of its civilian labor force unemployed for 15 weeks or longer 5.3% ....
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021 |
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HSTA Outlines Plan to Promote Identity Politics in K-12
By News Release @ 6:40 PM :: 3164 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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" ... Free virtual event aims to shift views .... "
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Sunday, April 18, 2021 |
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HGEA Demands Negotiations over Telework
By News Release @ 2:52 AM :: 2873 Views :: Labor, COVID-19
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"...to provide workplace flexibility for employees who are having to balance work and family responsibilities...."
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Friday, April 16, 2021 |
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Hawaii Unemployment Drops to 9.0%
By News Release @ 4:24 AM :: 3192 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, COVID-19
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... compared to 9.2 percent in February ....
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021 |
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UNITE HERE Bosses Back Down after Federal Charge Challenging Illegal Dues Seizures
By News Release @ 5:28 PM :: 3463 Views :: First Amendment, Labor
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... NLRA mandates that union officials cannot force private sector workers who decline formal union membership to pay union fees as a condition of keeping a job ....
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021 |
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Hawaii Nurses Pay #2 in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 3:27 AM :: 4023 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Labor
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... the 11,260 Hawaii RNs annual mean salary is $104,830 ....
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Thursday, April 1, 2021 |
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DLIR Update: $5.2B in Pandemic Benefits Paid
By News Release @ 9:18 PM :: 3236 Views :: Ethics, Labor, COVID-19
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... DLIR hired a vendor to perform investigations focusing on overpayments. Solid State Operations, Inc. will begin with 25 investigators on April 6 ....
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Friday, March 26, 2021 |
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Hawaii Unemployment Drops to 9.2% for February
By News Release @ 1:40 AM :: 3701 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Tourism, COVID-19
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... the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for February was 9.2 percent compared to the revised rate of 10.3 percent in January ....
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Thursday, March 25, 2021 |
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COVID Case: DLIR Shuts Unemployment Call Center for Long Weekend
By News Release @ 8:00 PM :: 2615 Views :: Labor, COVID-19
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... One staffer in a ballroom that serves general inquiries tested positive yesterday, and in response the department has shut down operations in that ballroom ....
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021 |
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Sheriff's New First Deputy 'Owes HGEA Everything'
By News Release @ 9:41 PM :: 3725 Views :: Labor, Police
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... The First Deputy is second in command of the Sheriff Division ....
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021 |
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Hawaii is the State Where People Worry They'll Lose Their Income
By Selected News Articles @ 10:10 PM :: 3235 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, COVID-19
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... Hawaii: 31.5% “expect someone in their household to have a loss in employment income in the next 4 weeks” ....
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 |
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Hawaii: Highest Paid Waiters in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 7:21 PM :: 3606 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business
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... Hawaii Waiters/Waitresses: average annual wage: $55,200; employment: 19,500 ....
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021 |
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HGEA Tells Schatz, Saiki: Unlike Teachers, 'We Never Quit'
By News Release @ 8:41 PM :: 3039 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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"... HGEA stood up at these meetings to make sure that our members are not blindsided or shortchanged by teacher demands ...."
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021 |
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Hawaii is the State Where Joblessness Has Skyrocketed
By Selected News Articles @ 7:54 PM :: 3805 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, COVID-19
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... Hawaii and California had the highest jobless rates in January, at 10.2% and 9.0%, respectively. At the far end of the spectrum, South Dakota and Utah had the lowest rates, each at 3.1% ....
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Monday, March 15, 2021 |
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DOE, HSTA reach agreement to increase 4th quarter in-person learning
By News Release @ 7:45 PM :: 3904 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, COVID-19
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... increasing number of students projected to return to in-person learning during the fourth quarter ....
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Thursday, March 11, 2021 |
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Ige: "Furloughs are off the table"
By News Release @ 6:37 PM :: 3707 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, COVID-19
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...Translation: Wage hikes coming on June 30 ....
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Monday, March 8, 2021 |
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Nurses at Maui Health System Vote to Approve Contract
By News Release @ 1:22 PM :: 3748 Views :: Maui County, Health Care, Labor, COVID-19
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... The contract rewards the risks taken and sacrifices made by these workers during the pandemic ....
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021 |
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HSTA orders BoE to Dump Kishimoto
By News Release @ 8:36 PM :: 2887 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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... Each of HSTA's '12 reasons' boils down to the same one thing: Kishimoto was slightly slow and reluctant to go along with HSTA's plan to shut down all schools and pay teachers full salary while letting them pretend to 'work' from home ....
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021 |
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Ige Signs Bill Lowering Unemployment Tax
By News Release @ 8:24 PM :: 3811 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Taxes, COVID-19
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... The measure allows employers to pay, on average, less than half of what they would otherwise pay into the system ....
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021 |
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DLIR: Decades-old Mainframe Behind Delays
By Selected News Articles @ 3:06 AM :: 2900 Views :: Labor, COVID-19
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... the technological backbone of the state’s UI program is an antiquated mainframe system that runs on a Natural database language ....
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Saturday, February 27, 2021 |
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Hawaii Most Unionized State
By News Release @ 6:36 PM :: 3443 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... Only two states had union membership rates over 20.0 percent in 2020: Hawaii (23.7 percent) and New York (22.0 percent) ....
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Saturday, February 27, 2021 |
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Maui Nurses Tentative Contract
By News Release @ 6:21 PM :: 3592 Views :: Maui County, Health Care, Labor
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... The registered nurses and other health care workers of Maui Health System reached a tentative contract agreement with MHS management just past 1:00 am HST Friday morning ....
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Thursday, February 25, 2021 |
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Hawaii Unemployment Tops in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 4:02 AM :: 4360 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Tourism, COVID-19
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... In December, Hawaii had the highest unemployment rate among the states at 9.3%, followed by Nevada at an unemployment rate of 9.2%. Both of these rates are higher than the national unemployment rate of 6.7%....
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Monday, February 22, 2021 |
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How Minimum Wage Worker Makes $72K
By News Release @ 3:35 PM :: 3929 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Cost of Living
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... in Full-Service Restaurants, most workers who earn minimum wage receive significantly more compensation in tips ....
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021 |
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HSTA survey: 52% of members have received one or two vaccine doses
By News Release @ 5:10 PM :: 2735 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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... HIDOE still taking names of those interested in shots ....
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021 |
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Laughing at Your Sacrifice: HSTA Pressures BoE for $33M Pay Hike
By News Release @ 4:38 AM :: 6818 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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... 'shortage differentials' were paid beginning January 7, 2020, for one year only. Extending them into 2021 is tantamount to a Pay Hike ....
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Monday, February 15, 2021 |
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Grievance: HGEA Supervises 'Learning Hubs' While HSTA Hides in Empty Classrooms
By News Release @ 4:45 PM :: 3206 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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... HGEA members are being left alone to supervise students in learning hubs while some teachers are able to work from home or remain isolated in their classrooms ....
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Friday, February 12, 2021 |
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DLIR Fixes Antique Computers--PEUC Checks Coming
By News Release @ 2:15 PM :: 3322 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, COVID-19
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... DLIR announced that it has completed system updates for the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) program that was extended by the Continued Assistance Act ....
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Sunday, January 31, 2021 |
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Grim Reality of Unemployment Taxes
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 4397 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Taxes, COVID-19
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... Our unemployment system, as of January 8, 2021, has paid out $3.4 billion in unemployment benefits ....
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Thursday, January 28, 2021 |
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Labor unions push lawmakers to drop GET on groceries
By News Release @ 2:51 AM :: 4209 Views :: Labor, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... ILWU, Teamsters, IATSE, UFCW ....
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021 |
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Sinkhole Cities: Honolulu 3rd Deepest Financial Pit
By Selected News Articles @ 3:38 AM :: 5270 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... Honolulu’s financial problems stem mostly from unfunded retirement obligations that have accumulated over the years ....
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