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Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? to continue reading. ... A 44-year-old former office associate with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 1186 has been ...
Jul. 21—The former business manager of a Hawaii labor union who was convicted of rigging a vote to raise dues and taking members' money to pay for his family's extravagant lifestyle was ...
Oct. 28—A Filipino labor leader made Honolulu his final stop on a cross-country trip to walk U.S. picket lines and urge unions to condemn the killings of Filipino organizers and union members. A ...
On Monday, 10 people were arrested for blocking busloads of temporary nurses from entering the Honolulu hospital where nurses are calling for safer patient-nurse ratios. On Tuesday, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green and Attorney General Anne Lopez urged hospital and union leaders to seek federal mediation to help reach an agreement. 09/24/2024 22:12 -0400
The union also found itself challenged by a change in the business climate in the 1970s, as non-union contractors invaded markets that had been solidly union for years with the support of the Business Roundtable, made up of the heads of General Motors, General Electric, Exxon, U.S. Steel, DuPont and others. The Roundtable also attempted to ...
In 1944 he was named Hawaii's first regional director for the ILWU. He then led a drive that organized plantation and dock workers as one interracial union. Before the drive, most strikes were held by one ethnic group at a time, with the exception of the Oahu sugar strike of 1920 , during which Japanese and Filipino plantation workers went on ...
Ah Quon McElrath (15 December 1915 – 11 December 2008) was a Hawaii labor reform leader and social activist. She retired in 1981, but spent her career advocating for unions by pushing for equal pay and treatment from the Big Five in Hawaii.
Watanabe said some Hawaii hotels are seeking to withhold cleaning for 10 % of the rooms per night, which could eliminate shifts for up to 10 workers at a 1, 400-room property where housekeepers ...