Maui ILWU members support Pacific Beach Hotel workers at a rally held on Dec. 20 in front of the hotel. (L-r) Business Agent Abel Kahoohanohano, Francis Kamakaokalani, Douglas Cabading.

Tipping Workers 
Workers in tipping category jobs such as waithelp and bell workers will get an increase of nearly 9.9 percent by the end of the five year agreement. They will receive a 2 percent wage increase in the first, second, and third year and 1.75 percent in the fourth and fifth year of the contract. Beginning on January 2009, tipping category workers will receive two times their base pay when they take vacations. They currently receive one and one-half times their pay.

Over 40 representatives from community groups, educators, lawmakers, churches and unions joined together on December 5, 2007 to send a message loud and clear to Pacific Beach Hotel owner HTH Corporation—treat the workers fairly or you won’t get our money.

The group, called Justice at the Beach, held a press conference to announce their support for Pacific Beach Hotel workers and to make a public call for a boycott of HTH Corporation, including Pacific Beach Hotel and Pagoda Hotel and Restaurant.

The attack on them is an attack on all workers

The union-busting employer at Pacific Beach Hotel, HTH Corporation, is doing everything it can to get rid of the ILWU as collective bargainging representative for the workers at Pacific Beach. How does this affect the rest of us? As part of the ILWU, our wages, benefits, working conditions, and voice on the job are protected by law. HTH is acting as if it is above the law.

The ILWU is sponsoring a “Free Store” for Pacific Beach Hotel workers who have lost their jobs, been downgraded in status, lost hours of work, or been paid less for doing the same job since HTH Corporation has resumed management of the hotel.

MAKENA, Maui—Over 50 years of play and still going strong—the 54th ILWU Mixed Golf Tournament was held on September 1-2, 2007 at the Makena Golf Courses on Maui. Over 80 golfers from Hawaii and the West Coast enjoyed great weather and challenging courses—causing one attendee to joke when asked how everyone was doing, “I think the golf course is winning.”

The top winner in the women’s flight was a familiar name and face—Suzanne Tamashiro of the Big Island received both the Overall Low Net and Overall Low Gross awards.

For ILWU members at the Ka’anapali Beach Hotel, the Hyatt Regency Maui, the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island, the Grand Hyatt Kauai, Four Seasons Resorts Lanai and Castle & Cooke Resorts Lanai.

There are several ways to fill your prescriptions under the ILWU Health & Welfare medical plan.

 Hurricane Katrina hit the coast of southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi in the early morning of August 29, 2005, as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm with winds of 135 miles per hour. The storm caused tremendous damage and displaced over one million people from the states of Louisiana and Mississippi.

For the first time ever, the ILWU has a television commercial! The 30-second commercial features who we are and what we do through the faces of ILWU members representing the diversity of our union—by industry, island, age, ethnicity, gender.

On Kauai, ILWU retirees celebrated their Labor Day early as they packed the ILWU Hall in Lihue on August 13 for
their annual picnic. Kauai Division hosts the picnic every year and provided the food, door prizes, and entertainment.