KOLOA —Unit 3511 Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa ratified their four year contract on November 14-16, 2017. There are 740 members at the Hyatt in a whole range of departments from engineering to spa workers and culinary workers to housekeeping! All of their hard work keeps a five star hotel like the Grand Hyatt running smoothly with guests always coming back for more. Congratulations to the negotiating committee for balancing the needs and concerns of their unit and keeping open communication with management to ratify another contract. 

Congratulations to Team “No Shame Take Pity” L-R: Mike Asari, Alan Shinagawa, Craig Oshiro, Sharon Fujii, and Shanelle Fujii holding the perpetual trophy.

KONA —The 32nd Annual ILWU Statewide SlowPitch Softball Tournament was held on the Big Island at the Old Kona Airport on September 30, 2017. Teams from Kauai Division, Hawaii Division and Oahu Longshore participated and enjoyed the camaraderie and sportsmanship.

“We’re going to make the trophy so big it can’t leave the Big Island!” joked Hawaii Division Director Elmer Gorospe. Teams from Kauai and Hawaii hoped to dethrone last year’s champions from Oahu players from McCabe Hamilton & Renny.

The ILWU’s first contested election in 18 years has yielded a new leadership team led by International President Willie Adams, Vice President (Mainland) Bobby Olvera, Jr., and Secretary-Treasurer Ed Ferris. Incumbent Wesley Furtado was re-elected to a sixth term as International Vice President (Hawaii).

LOCAL TITLED OFFICERS — Elected*

The “Constitution” sets the rules and policies by which this union is run. Local 142 members have the opportunity to amend or change the Constitution every three years at the Local Convention. If these changes are adopted by the Convention and ratified by the ILWU general membership, they become part of the rules that govern the union. Here are the Constitutional amendments adopted at this year’s Local Convention. Deletions are striked through, and additions are underlined.

bulk sugar negotiating committee. 3.03.2.4 Young Brothers. Each Division shall have one (1) Young Brothers delegate who shall be the unit chair or a duly authorized representative. Oahu shall have three (3) additional delegates, Hawaii one (1) additional delegate, and Molokai one (1) delegate.

Resolutions highlight where we have been and where we are heading as a union. The topics speak to the kind of values we aim to embody as working men and women within the Union. Here are brief summaries of the resolutions that were passed at this year’s Local Convention.

Travel the Hamakua Coast between Hilo and Honokaa, and you’ll see many communities that were once plantation camps housing sugar workers and their families: Pepeekeo, Kulaimano, Laupahoehoe, and Paauilo are some of the bigger ones.