HONOLULU -- “I asked her why she was quitting,” said Jane Templin, an electrician from Washington attending the Summer Institute for Union Women.
I said, ‘Do you not like your job?’
She said, ‘No, I love it.’
‘Then why are you quitting?’ I asked.
‘My dad said he would rather me be a prostitute than a construction worker because at least that’s a woman’s job.”
Watts. “As a woman, I refused to use my family name, so I could just see how far I could go. I never even told my father I was applying for the job I’m in now. My brother in Longshore didn’t know either, until his coworkers asked if I was his sister when they saw my name on an application. But I just knew I had to try as a woman to get it on my own as much as I could. People always talk and I didn’t want them to discredit me as a “I constantly get sh*t for my short stature and the size of my hands.
The theme of the LEAD Institute in Seattle was “Taking Responsibility for the Future.” Attendees learned how to address membership with the changing times, union values, union history and solidarity, and member involvement and activation. Can you spot the eight Local 142 representatives that attended the LEAD Institute?
HONOLULU -- Renovations at Pacific Beach Hotel started March of last year and the whole unit stayed open for business. The workers and the union have been working together to ensure fairness and continuity amidst all the changes to the property.
the five negotiating committees, no one had ever been involved in negotiations, and only one worker had even belonged to a union before.
However, the members were not deterred.
“Members of all the committees worked hard, learned fast, and took their responsibility seriously,” said Furtado
“It wouldn’t be possible to run five separate negotiations for first contracts without strong committees. We also had great support from the Hawaii Longshore Division.”
Donna Kim at a Local 142 press conference on June 22.
IMPORTANT DATES AT-A-GLANCE: Primary Election: August 11, 2018
General Election Registration Deadline: October 9, 2018
Late Registration and Early Walk In Voting: October 23 - November 3, 2018 (see elections.hawaii.gov for locations)
The ILWU’s 37th Convention met in Portland, Oregon on June 4-8. A total of 349 delegates and 40 fraternal delegates attended, along with up to 100 observers who witnessed the triannual meeting. The ILWU convention is the union’s highest decisionmaking body that meets every three years to democratically set policy, program, and consider changes to the ILWU Constitution.
on the convention floor, proposed resolutions had to first win support from a majority of local union members at home, or a majority of local union delegates attending the convention. Then each resolution was thoroughly explained, debated, amended and subject to a vote in one of the committees before finally reaching the convention floor where it faced further debate and a final vote by the delegates. In order to consider all of the proposed resolutions, some committees met late into the night in order to finish their work.
of British seafarers and the need for their own version of America’s Jones Act, the US law that protects domestic shipping industry.
He said the number of British seafarers will continue to decline through attrition and added that the threat of automated ships could reduce the number of seafarers even further.
