The Hawaii Longshore Division shares their phone number with the main switch board of the Honolulu ILWU Office. Longshore members should ask for the Longshore Division or Lynette Mau who can direct you to your business agent

Oahu Division shares their phone number with the main switch board of the Honolulu ILWU Hall. Serena will usually answer your call and you should ask for Oahu Division and talk to Division Clerk Lisa Maehara. Lisa can direct you to your business agent or take a message.

After hours you can also phone or email your business agent directly. Check with your Unit Chair who usually has their business agent’s cell phone number and email.

Kauai Division held their Recognition Banquet on March 15, 2013, at the ILWU Hall in Lihue.

The award winners were: 

Outstanding Unit Leader for units with up to 30 members—Bryon Ponte from Unit 3408 - MidPac Auto.

Outstanding Unit Leader for units with 31 to 99 members—Richard Brun Jr. from Unit 3514 - Mori Golf/Kauai Lagoons. 

Outstanding Unit Leader for units with 100 or more members— Rhonda Morris from Unit 3511 - Grand Hyatt Kauai. Outstanding Female Unit Chair—Edwina “Ipo” DeMello from Unit 3402 - Foodland. 

For the 36th year in a row, Hawaii Division held its Recognition Awards Banquet on February 23, 2013, to honor and recognize members, units, and pensioner clubs who have demonstrated leadership in supporting the ILWU and promoting its programs. And as it has in many of those nights, it rained in Hilo. But despite the sound of pounding rain and coqui frogs, the program was filled with camaraderie, music, food, and aloha

Over 50 ILWU members, retirees, and family members marched in the January 21, 2013, Martin Luther King Day parade from Ala Moana’s Magic Island to Kapiolani Park. Dozens of unions, religious groups and community organizations march in the Honolulu event to celebrate Dr. King and his contributions to civil rights.

ILWU International Secretary-Treasurer Louis Goldblatt (center) at the Local 142 Convention held at the Ilikai Hotel from September 8-13, 1969. (R-r) Oahu Division Director Jose Corpuz, Goldblatt, and Hawaii Regional Director Robert McElrath.

Tourism 

Workers Rights & Benefits 

16 Support the continued protection and maintenance of the “presumption clause” in the Workers’ Compensation Law, either through legislation or by rule-making. Oppose the reduction of the rights and benefits of injured workers, either by legislation or by rule-making.

Establish a package of workers’ compensation benefit improvements in the interest of fairness to injured workers.

Health & Social Services 

43 Continue funding for human and social service programs for lowincome, disadvantaged, and needy individuals and families. Appropriate adequate funding for mental health and social problems resulting from economic dislocation.

A tribute to Hawaii’s greatest statesman

Senator Daniel Inouye has been a friend and ally of the ILWU since his first election to the Hawaii Territorial House in 1954 and to the US House of Representatives in 1959. Inouye was elected to the US Senate in 1962 and served until his death on December 17, 2012. The following speeches by Senator Inouye to members of the ILWU spans 51 years from 1962 to 2012 and reveal how the ILWU and Inouye shared many of the same views of the world.