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.

Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act in 1935 to protect the rights of employees and employers, to encourage collective bargaining, and to curtail certain private sector labor and management practices, which can harm the general welfare of workers, businesses and the U.S. economy.

Findings and Policies 

I’ve been thinking about the 300 sisters and brothers from Local 6 who gave up their pay checks in July to honor the Teamster picket lines at Waste Management. I read the article about their fight in the last Dispatcher, and it made me wonder if we really appreciate what those workers accomplished—and what it means for the future of our union.

LIHUE—The ILWU Kauai Division sponsored a picnic and activity day for its retirees on Saturday, July 21, 2007. About 100 ILWU pensioner club and family members attended the picnic, which is held annually at the ILWU Hall at 4154 Hardy Street in Lihue. ◆