R-1 Quality Health Care For All 
The 25th Convention of the ILWU Local 142 strongly supports universal health care and the national health care reform being proposed by Congress and President Obama.

R-2 Salutes Achievements of ILWU Hotel Workers 
ILWU hotel units have organized and involved members following the principles of ILWU democratic, rank and file unionism. By mobilizing members, our hotel units have won good contracts and protected members’ jobs even in times of economic trouble.

ers implore the Commission on Water Resource Management, when setting interim instream flow standards for East and West Maui streams, to ensure that an adequate amount of stream water is available to HC&S for the irrigation of its crops so that the benefits provided by HC&S to this community are sustained and the vast green fields of Central Maui are kept in agricultural production.

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The International Executive Board, meeting in San Francisco on Oct. 15-16, 2009, confirmed the results of the International election.

Elected officers of the union are:

A historic solidarity agreement between the two unions that represent most of Hawaii hotel workers will give the unions more power and leverage in negotiating fair labor agreements with the major corporations that now dominate

Democrats and union-endorsed candidates did very well in Hawaii’s November 2 General Election. Democrats won all of the most important races—the governor’s race, the three congressional races, and 13 state senate seats, including one seat that was held by a Republican. In the Hawaii State Senate there is now only one Republican, along with 24 Democrats.

In the 51-member Hawaii State House, Republicans picked up two seats and now have eight members in the House, while Democrats won election to 43 seats.

If you repeat a lie often enough, some people will begin to believe the lie is true.

Republican and Conservative propaganda in the media want you to believe that the Obama Administration and the Democratic majority has done nothing to help working families in the last two years.

Division Directors Richard Baker and Michael Machado led a discussion at the Tourism Caucus on September 27- 28, 2010 on mobilizing members and preparing for negotiations.

In an earlier session, Division Directors William Kennison and Dave Mori talked about how the union should never give the company any concessions without getting something in return.

Tourism caucus attendees filled out a survey which asked six questions about how they thought the workers at their hotels felt about the union and management.

They were asked to rank those feelings on a scale of one to nine. A score of 1 was “Very negative,” 3 was “Negative,” 5 was “Neutral,” 7 was “Positive,” and 9 was “Very Positive.”

The same survey was done at the Tourism Conference held in 2006, which allows us to see how workers’ attitudes and feelings have changed over the last four years.

In 2009, Hilton Worldwide ranked as the third largest hotel chain in the U.S. based on the number of guest rooms. This is according to the annual survey of the Top U.S. Hotel Companies conducted by Hotel & Motel Management.

The Wyndham Hotel Group held the number one spot with 464,660 rooms and 5,968 US properties. Marriott International held second place.