UNITE HERE Local 5 represents 12,000 workers in Hawaiʻi who work in the hotel, healthcare, & food services industries.
We welcome inquiries from the media regarding our industries, members, policy and politics, and other issues of concerns to Hawaii workers. Please contact:
Bryant de Venecia, Communications Organizer
bdevenecia@5.unitehere.org
808-546-0024
IN THE NEWS
Modern Honolulu hotel could have union contract with Local 5 next week
(Pacific Business News) – By Stephanie Silverstein. The Modern Honolulu in Waikiki could have a union contract on Thursday, if hotel employees vote to accept a tentative agreement reached between Unite Here Local 5 and hotel management.
Unions, community, Aikea, and Hawaii
(Disappeared News) – By Larry Geller. While I worked for GE, the union members bargained for and won benefit improvements that were extended to all employees, including me. In the company town of Schenectady, what GE unions achieved benefitted workers of other companies as well—they effectively raised the standards.
Eric Gill: The leader of Hawaii’s hotel workers union is passionate about labor organizing
(Honolulu Star-Advertiser) By Lee Catterall. “We’ve given (the hotel industry) our beaches in order to get jobs, and they’re keeping the beach and downing the jobs.” — Eric Gill, Financial Secretary-Treasurer, UNITE HERE! Local 5