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First-hand account as 50+ educators volunteer to ease unemployment backlog
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First-hand account as 50+ educators volunteer to ease unemployment backlog

Evan Kumasaki2020-05-27T06:28:00-10:00May 27, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: backlog, coronavirus, COVID-19, educators, help, Leanne Teves, legislature, representatives, teachers, unemployment, volunteers|

A heartfelt mahalo to the 56 HSTA members who juggled their professional and personal schedules to volunteer to attack the state’s backlog of unemployment claims because of the pandemic.

Educators join public-sector union volunteers attacking jobless claims backlog
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Educators join public-sector union volunteers attacking jobless claims backlog

Evan Kumasaki2020-04-25T07:56:00-10:00April 25, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: backlog, coronavirus, COVID-19, HSTA, unemployment claims, volunteers|

Some educators juggled their remote teaching commitments to join more than 100 other public-sector union member volunteers from HSTA, HGEA and UHPA who started working on the massive backlog of unemployment claims Thursday at the Hawaii Convention Center.