I finally got around to following-up on my post last month concerning the failure to use details from arbitration proceedings involving public employee unions in reporting on state and county wage increases (“Public again left to guess about arbitrators’ decisions“). In my Hawaii Monitor column in Civil Beat this week, I dug through the arbitrators’ [...]
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Stephens Media, the union-busting owner of the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, is back at it again. In the latest chapter of a long running saga of labor law violations, the Tribune-Herald is stalling payments to two journalists previously ordered by the National Labor Relations Board, according to a release from the Pacific Media Workers Guild, which now [...]
Opponents of the recent decision by the board of the faculty union board’s decision to end its affiliation with the National Education Association are organizing on several fronts to reverse the decision. • A petition is being circulated calling for the board “to rescind the vote to disaffiliate from NEA. The petition begins: “We want [...]
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Hawaii’s public sector nurses, represented by the HGEA, were awarded an 8% pay raise via an arbitrators’ ruling this week after a long delay and bitter negotiations. There’s obviously a lot of public interest in this latest arbitration award. So how was it reported? Leila Fujimori’s story in the Star-Advertiser on Wednesday was the best [...]
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Stop by Civilbeat.com and check out my Hawaii Monitor column for this week, which tries to give shape to my uneasiness over the Carpenters Union/Pacific Resource Partnership campaign against Ben Cayetano. The PRP ad campaign comes across as a form of digital bullying aimed at intimidating voters rather than educating them, spreading misplaced fears rather [...]
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An email from Deputy Campaign Manager & Communications Director of the Lingle campaign, Lenny Klompus, hit my In Box Sunday afternoon: Today the Hawaii Tribune Herald, the Big Island’s largest newspaper, officially endorsed Governor Lingle for Hawaii’s open U.S. Senate seat. Oh, wait! Is that the same Hawaii Tribune Herald that the National Labor Relations [...]
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My sister gave me on a family history lesson this week via Google Earth. It’s history I did not know. The photo above shows what remains of Fergushill Rows in East Ayrshire, Scotland, near the town of Kilmarnock. The stone building, now a barn, was one of a series of buildings where coal miners and [...]
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I’m on a continuing quest to get old files and things under some kind of control. Yesterday I dug into a small stack of old reports from the Campaign Spending Commission that date back into the 1980s and early 1990s. Thumbing through a few, I thought it might be an opportunity to examine changes in [...]
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