Jill Meinecke2025-05-13T17:01:03-10:00May 13, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: APC, APC rep, arbitration, Association Policy Committee, collective bargaining agreement, grievance, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, HRS § 89-9(c), Justin Jansen, Office of Information Technology Services (OITS), UniServ director|
After a full arbitration hearing, the arbitrator sided with HSTA and upheld the grievance, filed by the Office of Information Technology Services (OITS), that asserted that the HIDOE must recognize the OITS Association Policy Committee (APC) under Article IV of the collective bargaining agreement.
Jill Meinecke2022-03-22T12:17:16-10:00March 22, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: Amanda Lacar, Association Policy Committee, Board of Education, complex area superintendent, contract, contract exceptions, contract violation, grievance, Head Faculty Representative, school level leaders, Step 1, UniServ director, waialua high and intermediate|
Teachers, with the support of HSTA, stopped a contract violation at Waialua High and Intermediate School when the principal mandated grades be submitted early without a contract exception in place.
Terri Inefuku2022-02-25T19:09:20-10:00February 25, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: Association Policy Committee, collective bargaining agreement, contract violation, contractual rights, directive, grievance, non-classroom teacher, School Level Leader, Solomon Elementary, substitute, UD, UniServ director, volunteer|
When David Martin, a special education preschool teacher at Solomon Elementary on Schofield Barracks Army Base in Wahiawa, Oahu, heard his principal was violating the Hawaii State Teachers Association collective bargaining agreement, or contract, at the beginning of the school year, he knew he had to step in.
