"When you help the community, you help this organization, and vice versa," said Local Secretary-Treasurer Michael Victorino, Jr. when talking about the importance of giving back through community service events. This past year, ILWU Local 142's leadership and vision within the community and our partnerships have reflected our commitment to the principle of "An Injury to One is an Injury to All." Here are some of the events we have done in the first half of 2022. Follow our social media at ILWU Local 142 Hawaii for more!

The Labor of Love event joins forces with other labor unions and community organizations to do community service projects for a designated public school from a different island every year. ILWU Local 142 joined over a dozen different labor organi- zations on April 23, 2022 at this year's designated campus lao School on Maui.

ILWU Local 142 had strong participation from the membership and Division alike. Members from Paradise Beverages, Hali'imaile Pineapple, Matson, and Young Brothers gave up a Saturday to do tasks around the school such as paint and repair jobs around the campus, construct and install new benches for the students, and install and create a shaded space for students to congre- gate and have campus pride. Many of the projects would not have been possible without cooper- ation from ILWU units. ILWU house Young Brothers helped to ensure the benches were shipped to the school on time, and another ILWU unit HC&D donated the concrete that was poured that day to refurbish paths around the school. 1. Business Agent John Simpliciano, Local Secretary-Treasurer Michael Victorino, Jr., lao School students, and International Vice President - Hawaii Sam Kreutz in front of ILWU's educational display in the school cafeteria. In addition to the community service projects around campus that required manual labor, different unions had their own booth where students could engage with union leadership. In the background is a monitor screen that played an ILWU Local 142 "Who We Are" video on a loop. 2. Hali'imaile Pineapple member Ricardo Dela Torre and his son painting the stairs. 3. Business Agent John Simpliciano with the full extent of the ILWU display that included educational brochures on the importance of union jobs and Maui ILWU units, stickers and cookies.