Parking victory for Sheraton Waikiki & Royal Hawaiian workers

2016-12-14-kyo-ya-parking-victoryParking victory for our Sheraton Waikiki and Royal Hawaiian workers! Our worker-led committee negotiated with the company to address the safety, economic and workplace impacts of the parking lockouts. Starting on the lockouts of December 9th & 15th, the company has agreed to go back to the old way.
 
The General Manager and Local 5 also secured parking at $12 flat rate for 11 hours at International Market Place & Hawaiian Monarch $8 for any 10 hours within 5am-6pm. See union bulletin board for full list of parking sites, details & conditions.
The parking lock-out committee organized their coworkers to get 500 signatures on a petition and bargain with the General Manager.
“We don’t have to wait until our 2018 contract negotiations to get things done. As long as we are united [as workers], we can win.” — Local 5 Parking Lock-Out committee

November 2016 Workers Lead Bulletin

Workers successfully fought against an unfair attendance policy, improper staffing, scheduling violations, and more. Read below for more of our Local 5  victories. (Printable PDF version of our November 2016 Workers Lead Bulletin: English and Chinese.)

Annual Local 5 Delegate Convention

dsc_5687At our annual Delegate Convention, we discussed the challenges & opportunities facing the union. We rallied at Aston headquarters to demand that they respect their workers. Then we marched to the Trump Hotel Waikiki to support Trump Las Vegas workers who are calling on Donald Trump, co-owner of the hotel, to start contract negotiations after they won a unionization vote.

Hawaii Care & Cleaning workers fight unfair termination

2016-10-25-12-45-57HCC worker Sherwin Badua was recently terminated for excessive attendance. His coworkers wore buttons in support of Sherwin and to stand up against HCC’s unfair attendance policy that counts tardiness and absences as a no show. Sherwin also filed a grievance. Before even getting to step one of the grievance, HCC agreed to reinstate Sherwin with 5 weeks of back pay.

Airport Plaza guest service agents win back pay

2016-10-17-15-52-35Management at the Airport Plaza Hotel refused to schedule guest services agents by seniority. This on-going violation caused the company to back pay three GSA workers up to $1900.

 

Local 5 at the annual Honolulu Pride Parade

img_4217Local 5 and AiKea marched in the Honolulu Pride Parade to stand with the LGBTQ community. Thanks to everyone who marched with us!

 

Turtle Bay Resort workers stand up for proper staffing

2016-09-16-turtle-bay-paakai-delegationPa’akai restaurant workers at Turtle Bay Resort stood up for proper staffing. They organized to get more servers scheduled and won back-pay for workers who were not called in for shifts.

 

Fall 2016 AiKea Youth Retreat

2016-10-10-11-04-12Students from Waipahu High, Pearl City High, and UH attended our Fall 2016 AiKea Youth Retreat at Camp Palehua. They did team building exercises, learned how to organize, and came up with chants for the Pride Parade–all while having fun!

Sheraton grounds workers delegates management

2016-10-29-sheraton-grounds-delegationLeaders from the Grounds department at Sheraton delegated management without the help of their organizers. They brought up issues in their department around standard operations, communication, training new hires, and more. Management agreed to work with them to address these issues. Congratulations to these leaders for stepping up! #WorkersLead

Hawaii Care & Cleaning workers fight unfair termination

2016-10-25-12-45-57Hawaii Care & Cleaning worker Sherwin Badua was recently terminated for excessive attendance. His coworkers wore buttons in support of Sherwin and to stand up against HCC’s unfair attendance policy that counts tardiness and absences as a no show. Sherwin also filed a grievance. Before even getting to step one of the grievance, HCC agreed to reinstate Sherwin with 5 weeks of back pay. #WorkersLead

Mayor Kirk Caldwell visits our Hilton Hawaiian Village members

14826306_1792005091070396_1502124440_nMayor Kirk Caldwell visited our members at the Hilton Hawaiian Village yesterday! He’ll be visiting other Local 5 properties over the next week. Look out for him!

View more photos on our Facebook page.

Royal Hawaiian worker fights for scheduling, workload

2016-10-24-royal-hawaiian-kekoa-caseria-copyKekoa Caseria has worked at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel for 16 years. Since 2009, Kekoa has tirelessly fought to have Sunday/Monday Days Off. With the help of the Contract Enforcement Team (CET), effective October 20, 2016 Kekoa was finally awarded his Preferred Days Off. Kekoa also won Back Pay of 4.75 hours for a 2014 grievance. Most recently, CET filed a grievance on Kekoa’s behalf in September 2016 to challenge unreasonable staff levels and workload. The company hired workers to resolve the grievance. #WorkersLead