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Hawaii: New Contracts Give More Than $1 Billion In Union Pay Raises
April 29, 2025 // Bargaining wrapped up shortly after the Hawaiʻi Commission on Salaries awarded total raises ranging from 35% to 48% over six years to top state leaders, including the governor and his department heads. By comparison, unionized state workers received raises of 4% or less per year for the next four years. Union leaders say the state urgently needs to boost public workers’ pay to help recruit people to fill vacant state jobs, but the new contracts won’t do that.
Labor organizers and anti-union activists square off again on membership, dues issues
March 18, 2022 // “It codifies the process by which an employee may exercise this right and safeguards that person’s ability to exercise it at any time,” Vernuccio said. “It does this by having the public employees tell their employers directly that they wish to have money taken from their paycheck, instead of employers taking the union’s word for it.”