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Wednesday, May 13, 2020 |
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Forcing United Public Workers to Enter New Era
By Selected News Articles @ 6:26 PM :: 4616 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...it isn’t the kind its leaders were counting on....
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Saturday, May 9, 2020 |
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How Solvent is Hawaii Unemployment Trust Fund?
By Tax Foundation @ 3:17 AM :: 3990 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business, COVID-19
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...A Visual Guide to Unemployment Benefit Claims....
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Friday, May 8, 2020 |
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New Hawaii Unemployment Claims Still Running 1338% Above Last Year
By Selected News Articles @ 5:33 AM :: 3418 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, COVID-19
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...Refers to the increase in the number of unemployment insurance initial claims in the week of April 27, 2020 compared to the week of April 29, 2019....
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020 |
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COVID Wipes Out 69% of Jobs on Maui
By UHERO @ 9:45 PM :: 7421 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Kauai County, Maui County, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business, COVID-19
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...total job reductions between January and April in Honolulu county were 34% of full-time jobs and 41% of part-time. These numbers were much higher on Hawaii (50% and 67%), Maui (69% and 68%), and Kauai (56% and 62%)....
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Monday, May 4, 2020 |
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Hawaii 3rd Worst State for Nurses
By Selected News Articles @ 1:43 PM :: 3641 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Labor
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...2020’s Best & Worst States for Nurses....
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Saturday, May 2, 2020 |
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Hawaii Unemployment Claims Jump 2785%
By Selected News Articles @ 4:53 PM :: 3491 Views :: Economy, Labor, COVID-19
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... States with the Biggest Increases in Unemployment Due to Coronavirus ....
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Saturday, May 2, 2020 |
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AFSCME Takes Control of UPW--Boots Nakanelua, Endo
By News Release @ 2:12 PM :: 5270 Views :: Ethics, Labor
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"...abuse and misuse of union funds and the existence of questionable perks and benefits...."
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020 |
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Hawaii ERS headed for disaster if economy keeps heading south
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:57 PM :: 4825 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, COVID-19
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... Major reforms could help the pension system honor its promises ....
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Friday, April 24, 2020 |
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A 50-State Visual Guide to Unemployment Benefit Claims
By Tax Foundation @ 9:24 PM :: 3801 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...another 4,267,395 people filed initial unemployment benefit claims during the week ending April 18, the second week of a decline in the rate of new claims, but still among the highest levels in U.S. history....
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Thursday, April 23, 2020 |
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States with the Biggest Increases in Unemployment Due to COVID-19
By Selected News Articles @ 4:12 PM :: 3470 Views :: Economy, Labor, COVID-19
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...Hawaii -- 3009.22% -- Increase in Unemployment Claims (April vs Start of COVID-19 Crisis)....
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Sunday, April 19, 2020 |
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UPW: We Like Sitting at Home Getting Paid--Do Not Reassign Us
By News Release @ 3:41 AM :: 5270 Views :: Labor, COVID-19
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...we have still not received a response to the question posed as to whether employees who are redeployed are still eligible to benefit entitlements provided by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act....
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Sunday, April 19, 2020 |
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HSTA Claims 20% Pay Cut Will be 'Implemented' June 1
By News Release @ 3:36 AM :: 3783 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, COVID-19
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...After unions notified their members of the salary reduction idea Tuesday night, state officials informed union leaders the implementation date of the salary cuts has been delayed by at least one month, to June 1 instead of May 1....
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Sunday, April 19, 2020 |
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UHPA: Ige Has No Right to Cut our Pay
By News Release @ 3:29 AM :: 3349 Views :: Higher Education, Labor, COVID-19
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"...We want to reassure you that the Governor has no legal authority, right, or privilege to unilaterally negate or disregard our current Unit 7 contract...."
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Thursday, April 16, 2020 |
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How Well-Funded Are Pension Plans in Your State?
By Tax Foundation @ 2:59 PM :: 3346 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...Hawaii pension plan only 55% funded ranks 43rd among states....
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Thursday, April 16, 2020 |
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Rep Case, Legislators Challenge Ige on Union Pay Cuts
By News Release @ 3:56 AM :: 3555 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, COVID-19
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...Representative Case says money from the CARES Act should be used for covering revenue losses....
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020 |
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Petition: Hawaii COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits Not Being Paid!
By News Release @ 3:38 AM :: 5010 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government, Labor, COVID-19
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... Department of Labor and Industrial Relations seem to have dropped the ball ....
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 |
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UNITE Here Local 5 -- "Safe Hotel Operations in Pandemic Conditions"
By News Release @ 1:59 AM :: 3304 Views :: Labor, Tourism, COVID-19
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...Safe Hotels, Safe Hawaii Operational Guidelines for Safe Hotel Operations in Pandemic Conditions....
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Sunday, April 12, 2020 |
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And We Aren’t Moving People Around Because?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 4137 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, COVID-19
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...The emergency proclamation suspends several laws, including chapters 89 and 89C, HRS, relating to collective bargaining....
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Sunday, April 12, 2020 |
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Hawaii 12.8% of Workforce on Unemployment
By Tax Foundation @ 4:46 AM :: 3742 Views :: Economy, Labor, COVID-19
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...Hawaii Unemployment Comp funds will run out in 21 weeks....
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Friday, April 3, 2020 |
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A Visual Guide to Unemployment Benefit Claims
By Tax Foundation @ 1:50 AM :: 3870 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, COVID-19
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...8.9% of Hawaii's workforce was receiving or filing for unemployment as of March 28, 2020....
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Thursday, April 2, 2020 |
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States with the Biggest Increase in Unemployment--Hawaii 15th
By Selected News Articles @ 2:49 PM :: 4117 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business, COVID-19
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...unemployment claim increases for the week of March 23....
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Friday, March 27, 2020 |
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Is Seattle a warning against Hawaii raising its minimum wage?
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:08 PM :: 3037 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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...with the coronavirus recession underway, raising the minimum wage is a bad idea....
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Saturday, March 21, 2020 |
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Thanks to Virus, DoE Finally Achieves Goal of Eliminating All Standardized Testing
By News Release @ 4:13 AM :: 3725 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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...HSTA revels in accountability-free utopia. Hawaii college applicants will not be so lucky....
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020 |
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Thursday, March 12, 2020 |
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Minimum Wage Hike will Worsen Corona Virus Recession
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:59 PM :: 4063 Views :: Economy, Labor, Small Business, Tourism
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...Testimony on proposed minimum-wage increase....
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Monday, February 24, 2020 |
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Hawaii 8th-Safest Workplaces
By Selected News Articles @ 7:40 PM :: 2911 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...The Most Dangerous States to Work In....
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Monday, February 24, 2020 |
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Hawaii ILWU Official Sentenced for Tax Evasion, Identity Theft
By Selected News Articles @ 5:11 PM :: 4723 Views :: Ethics, Labor, Law Enforcement
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...If government benefits were available, Nathan Lum made sure that he was going to receive some of them....
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Monday, February 24, 2020 |
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Raise Minimum Wage? What Hawaii Can Learn from Seattle
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:00 AM :: 4729 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Cost of Living
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...An expert on Seattle's experience will address 2 Hawaii events....
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Saturday, February 22, 2020 |
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$13 Minimum Wage Passes Another Committee
By News Release @ 2:11 AM :: 3900 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Cost of Living
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...HB 2541 HD1 would make the state earned income tax credit refundable and permanent, and increase the refundable food/excise tax credit. In addition, the bill would increase the minimum wage....
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Friday, February 7, 2020 |
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Hawaii: Few Disabled Working, Federal Benefits Unused
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 3396 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Labor
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...Hawaii reported an integrated employment rate of 2 percent, the lowest rate in the nation....
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Thursday, February 6, 2020 |
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DoE Funds HSTA Pay Hike Propaganda 'Study'
By News Release @ 2:27 PM :: 3798 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, Cost of Living
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...The study was done by Augenblick, Palaich and Associates (APA), which (previously demonstrated its reliability by conducting) a salary study in 2014 for HIDOE and the Hawaii State Teachers Association....
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020 |
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ILWU Boss Gets 30 Months for Theft
By News Release @ 11:45 PM :: 3799 Views :: Ethics, Labor
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...Nathan Lum was the former division director of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142, Longshore Division (ILWU)....
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020 |
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Honolulu City Finances 3rd Worst in USA
By News Release @ 4:01 AM :: 4514 Views :: Honolulu County, Labor, Taxes
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...While people have focused on the city’s $2.6 billion pension debt, its debt related to retiree health care benefits is almost as high at $2.2 billion....
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Saturday, January 25, 2020 |
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Eight Bills Behind 'Joint Economic Package'
By News Release @ 2:13 AM :: 3856 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Cost of Living
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...Measures tackle housing, childcare, wage issues highlighted in ALICE report....
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Thursday, January 23, 2020 |
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Hawaii Highest Union Membership in USA
By News Release @ 12:51 AM :: 3074 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...Hawaii has the highest union membership rate at 23.5 percent....
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020 |
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Ige, Legislators Announce "Joint Economic Package"
By News Release @ 8:04 PM :: 5723 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Small Business, Tax Credits, Taxes
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"...legislative package of bills to reduce income inequality...."
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020 |
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HSTA Pushing ANOTHER Massive Pay Hike with No Accountability
By Andrew Walden @ 2:21 PM :: 4250 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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...HSTA got $45M in a contract reopener April 1, 2019. On December 5, 2019 HSTA and DoE announced a massive pay hike for teachers working in so-called 'hard to fill' positions. Now in a January 10, 2020, anouncement, the HSTA and Kishimoto are proposing to bump thousands of union members up five steps....
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Sunday, January 12, 2020 |
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What Really Is a Minimum Wage?
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:00 AM :: 4339 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Cost of Living
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...the reasons for an ever-increasing “living wage” have been a second tier topic of discussion....
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Thursday, January 9, 2020 |
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Hawaii Female Salaries 82.6% of Male
By News Release @ 3:50 AM :: 3657 Views :: Family, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...Hawaii women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $797, or 82.6 percent of the $965 median usual weekly earnings of their male counterparts....
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Friday, December 20, 2019 |
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Hawaii Unemployment Insurance System Ranks 28th in USA
By Tax Foundation @ 10:28 AM :: 4141 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Small Business
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...Well-designed UI tax systems emphasize greater stability and predictability....
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Friday, December 13, 2019 |
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HPD Settles Employment Discrimination Suit
By News Release @ 5:18 PM :: 3210 Views :: Labor, Police
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...The Hawaiʻi Civil Rights Commission (HCRC) today announced the settlement of a complaint alleging employment discrimination by the Honolulu Police Department (“HPD”) on the basis of credit history and credit report....
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019 |
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Yet Another Campaign for HSTA Pay Hikes
By News Release @ 4:18 AM :: 4070 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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...Just 7 months after HSTA's last contract reopener....
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019 |
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Hawaiian Flight Attendants Vote to Authorize a Strike
By News Release @ 3:50 PM :: 3718 Views :: Labor, Tourism
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...Hawaiian Airlines Flight Attendants today voted 99.9 percent to authorize a strike, with 95.1 percent participating....
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Saturday, October 26, 2019 |
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Blocks 2/3 of Contractors from Bidding: Caldwell Allows Bill 37 to Become Law
By News Release @ 5:09 AM :: 5057 Views :: Honolulu County, Labor, Small Business
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...In the period between now and when Bill 37 becomes effective, the mayor will work with interested parties to rectify the issues concerning this bill....
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019 |
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HSTA wins award for tobacco control efforts
By News Release @ 7:23 PM :: 4347 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care, Labor
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...teachers union says state should ban flavored vape products....
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Saturday, October 19, 2019 |
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PLA measure is pilau
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:53 PM :: 4819 Views :: Honolulu County, Labor, Small Business
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... What happens when a government tries to fix a system that isn’t broken? ....
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Saturday, October 19, 2019 |
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Honolulu GOP: Veto Bill 37
By Brett Kulbis @ 3:22 PM :: 4684 Views :: Honolulu County, Labor, Small Business
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...Bill 37 amounts to a sweetheart deal for big union labor and will guarantee that the county will have to spend more on future infrastructure projects....
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019 |
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Bill 37: Why Contractors Should Compete
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:42 PM :: 4295 Views :: Honolulu County, Labor, Small Business
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...a proposed policy in Honolulu may prevent nonunion employers from bidding on government projects....
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Thursday, October 10, 2019 |
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Council approves PLAs despite many concerns
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:59 PM :: 5788 Views :: Honolulu County, Labor, Small Business
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...After a public hearing, the Council approved the bill, 7-2, It now goes to the mayor....
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