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A 44-year-old former office associate with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 1186 has been charged with felony theft for allegedly embezzling $44,367 in union dues ...
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union that represents approximately 820,000 workers and retirees [1] in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, [3] Guam, [4] [5] Panama, [6] Puerto Rico, [7] and the US Virgin Islands; [7] in particular electricians, or inside wiremen, in the construction industry and lineworkers and other employees of public ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 1891, Henry Miller founded a national organization for electricians at a convention held in his house in St. Louis with the local union being the first to join. [ 2 ] The Local 1 members continued to meet in rented facilities until 1928 when they purchased a former church in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood.
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.
HONOLULU (AP) — About 2,000 workers went on strike Tuesday at Hawaii's largest resort, joining thousands of others striking at hotels in other U.S. cities. Unionized workers at Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort — the largest Hilton in the world — began an open-ended strike at 5 a.m.
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 ...