Oahu Division shares their phone number with the main switchboard of the Honolulu ILWU Hall. Members should ask for Oahu Division. Division Clerk Lisa Maehara or Senior/General Office Clerk Serena Takahashi will direct you to your business agent or take a message. You can also phone or email your business agent after hours. Your unit chair usually has the business agent’s cell phone number and email. Business agents are required to carry their union supplied cell phone and to be available during reasonable hours seven days a week.

Oahu is the second largest Division in the ILWU with close to 5,000 members. More than half of Oahu’s members work in the general trades industrial grouping, with Foodland Supermarkets being the largest employer of ILWU members. The second largest employer is Pacific Beach Hotel, followed by Straub Clinic and Hospital. Other large employers include Servco Pacific and Love’s Bakery, Inc.

Their Division Executive Board Meetings start at 5:30 p.m. on the fourth Friday every month at the ILWU Hall on 451 Atkinson Blvd. The date of the November meeting may change depending on the Thanksgiving Holiday. There is no meeting in December.

Michael S. Yamaguchi 
Division Director

Michael possesses extensive experience in contract enforcement, negotiations, and membership services, working as a division representative and business agent for Oahu from 2004-2012. This is his second term as division director. A merchandiser for the Honolulu Advertiser, Michael has been an ILWU member for 20 years. He has also served as unit secretary and unit editor. Mike chairs the Honolulu Liquor Commission.

Wilfred “Wil” Chang 
Business Agent

Wil was an irrigation specialist at Waikele Country Club for six years before being elected business agent in 2012. He was the unit chair from 2007-2011. Serving his second term as a business agent, Wil coordinates the Division’s political action program and co-coordinates the pensioner program. He also sits on the Honolulu Planning Commission.

Paris E. J. Fernandez 
Business Agent

Paris is from Honolulu Ford where he worked as an automotive mechanic and has been an ILWU member since 1997. While at his unit, he served as unit secretary, unit vice chair, and negotiating committee member. This is Paris’s second term as business agent. He is currently cocoordinator of Oahu Division’s community services program and assists with sports.

Dillon M. Hullinger 
Business Agent

Dillon is a longtime ILWU member having worked at Foodland Supermarkets for 22 years, first as a courtesy clerk and working his way up to a produce clerk. He has held various union offices, including unit vice chair, unit chair, and Local Executive Board member. This is Dillon’s second term as business agent. He had been working for Oahu Division as an appointed business agent for a year before winning his first elected term in 2012. Dillon is Oahu Division’s education coordinator and community services cocoordinator.

Lisa Maehara 
Division Clerk

Lisa has been helping ILWU members for over 25 years. She became the division clerk in 2005, and performs office clerical work for Oahu Division, including answering the phone, preparing correspondences, and making arrangements for meetings.

Karl Lindo 
Business Agent

Karl has been an ILWU member since 1989, when he helped to organize the Hawaiian Waikiki Beach Hotel (now the non-union Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel) where he worked as a cook. He has served as unit vice chair, unit chair, and negotiation committee member. Karl had been working for Oahu Division as an appointed local field representative and business agent for three years before being elected in 1995. He oversees Oahu Division’s organizing program.

Jose M. Miramontes 
Division Representative

This is Jose’s second appointed term as division representative. Before becoming a full time officer, he worked as a selector at Hawaii Logistics and has served his unit as a steward and second vice chair. Jose is co-coordinator of Oahu Division’s sports and pensioners program. He is also Oahu’s political action chair, and assists with organizing.

Brian Tanaka 
Business Agent

This is Brian’s eighth term as business agent. He is a long-time ILWU member having worked at the Hawaii Newspaper Agency for 32 years as a district manager. His varied union service includes terms on the International Executive Board as General Trades Industrial Grouping Representative and Local Executive Board as trustee. Brian served his unit as steward, vice chair, and chair. Brian oversees the Oahu Division sports program.

Serena Takahashi 
Senior/General Office Clerk

Serena was an ILWU member with Servco Pacific before becoming the receptionist at the main switchboard of ILWU Local 142. She served as unit secretary and unit editor. Serena shares the clerical duties for Oahu Division.