Over 110 rank and file ILWU members spent five days in Honolulu last October 15 to 19, 2007, attending the union's intensive leadership training institute. They learned how to build a stronger union on the job and in the community.

Del Beazley and friends leads the singing of “We Shall Not Be Moved” during Friday's graduation. It was a moving finale of another very successful ILWU education program.

Robert Schwartz talked about how unions can legally use rats, bannering, and pickets to put pressure on employers. Some unions will call attention to an unfair employer by inflating a large rat balloon in front of the company. Another tactic is to have a couple of people hold a 100 foot long banner urging the public to boycott a bad employer

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Diane Thomas-Holladay showed how labor and the religious community can work together because they share common goals for justice and fairness. Diane (far right) shows how the very rich got the most benefit from George Bush's tax cut. The wealthy got enough money to buy new cars while working people barely got enough to buy a plate lunch.

Takeshi Kouchi in 1959.

October 5, 2007 marked the 70th anniversary when ILWU longshore locals in Hawaii received their charters from the newly formed International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).

Union-wide elections held in November 2009 elected 25 full-time officers, 13 members to the Local Executive Board, and 19 Delegates to the International Convention. All officers serve a term of three years, beginning January 2, 2010 and ending on January 1, 2013.

Members elected a new president—Isaac Fiesta Jr. from the Big Island. Vice President Donna Domingo was re-elected to serve a third term. Guy Fujimura was elected to serve his eighth term as the union’s secretary-treasurer, a position he has held since 1985.

Voting tallies for divisions

James M. Kennedy, Administrative Law Judge of the National Labor Relations Board, issued a scathing decision against HTH Corporation, the owners and management of the Pacific Beach Hotel in Waikiki.

The 51-page decision charged HTH management with 15 violations of federal labor law and ordered the hotel to resume recognition of the ILWU as the workers’ union, rehire and pay back wages to seven members of the union negotiating committee, pay the union’s cost of negotiating since 2005, rescind all changes made without the agreement of the union, and more.

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