Jill Meinecke2025-03-13T09:34:27-10:00March 13, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: compensation, grievance, HIDOE, HIDOE teachers, Keith Hayashi, paycheck delay|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association has secured a $234,800 settlement from the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education to compensate nearly 500 teachers who experienced paycheck delays at the start of the school year.
cschubert2024-09-19T20:50:43-10:00September 18, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: delay, grievance, HIDOE, HSTA, paycheck, paychecks, settles|
The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education has agreed to conduct an audit and pay 500 teachers hundreds of dollars each for the financial harm they suffered because of paycheck delays, settling a grievance brought by the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association.
cschubert2024-09-18T13:35:48-10:00September 13, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Department of Education, grievance, Hawaii State Department of Education, HIDOE, Keith Hayashi, office of talent management, paycheck, paycheck delay, Records and Transcripts, superintendent, Teacher recruitment|
“While we appreciate the additional opportunity for dialogue with HIDOE early next week, our members grow weary of their continued lack of transparency, absence of immediate cooperation, and failure to address the needs of its workforce,” said Osa Tui, Jr., HSTA president.
Jill Meinecke2022-05-27T15:07:54-10:00May 27, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: APC, Bargaining Unit 05, Beverly Ikalani, Castle High School, contract, grievance, Head Faculty Representative, Lawn mowing, Step 1 grievance, UniServ director, Windward Oahu|
Castle High School students may soon be able to attend class without lawnmowers disrupting their lessons after strong advocacy by the school’s teachers and the Hawaii State Teachers Association.
Jill Meinecke2022-03-24T16:27:50-10:00March 24, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: demand for bargaining, grievance, HIDOE, substitute shortage, substitute teachers, teacher shortage, UniServ Directors|
The HIDOE rescinded its emergency assignment memo, resolving a class grievance HSTA filed on the matter.
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.
Terri Inefuku2022-01-12T18:09:17-10:00January 12, 2022|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: collective bargaining agreement, contract violations, coronavirus, COVID-19, demand for bargaining, grievance, impact bargaining, Keith Hayashi, school closures, superintendent, teacher reassignments|
This week, the Hawaii State Teachers Association submitted a new demand for impact bargaining to interim Schools Superintendent Keith Hayashi and Hawaii Board of Education Chair Catherine Payne over recent changes by the Hawaii State Department of Education to members’ working conditions without appropriate negotiation or a consult-and-confer process, which are violations of our contract, HIDOE policy, and state law.
Jill Meinecke2021-12-10T16:43:51-10:00December 10, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: COVID-19, grievance, Hawaii Labor Relations Board, HSTA, PPC, prohibited practice complaint, State of Hawaii|
The state blatantly disregarded the Hawaii State Teachers Association’s collective bargaining agreement and its grievance procedure in what amounts to a “willful and a clear cut prohibited practice,” the HSTA argued in a brief filed Wednesday with the Hawaii Labor Relations Board.
Terri Inefuku2021-10-01T14:13:56-10:00October 1, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: arbitration, class grievance, collective bargaining law, coronavirus, COVID-19, demand for arbitration, emergency proclamation, grievance, Hawaii State Department of Education, HIDOE, HSTA|
The Hawaii State Department of Education has notified the Hawaii State Teachers Association that it will “take no further action” on two class grievances over unsafe working conditions and the state’s mandate that unvaccinated education employees be tested for COVID-19 weekly, citing the suspension of parts of Hawaii’s collective bargaining law because of the pandemic.
