HSTA informational picketing FAQs
For our purposes, informational picketing is meant to raise awareness for families and the community about issues taking place on many of our campuses where safety protocols are not being followed.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-10-22T13:42:04-10:00October 22, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: DOE, health and safety, HIDOE, HSTA, picketing, pickets, principals, safe., students, teachers|
For our purposes, informational picketing is meant to raise awareness for families and the community about issues taking place on many of our campuses where safety protocols are not being followed.
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.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-09-29T12:11:53-10:00September 29, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: concerns, contact tracing, educators, HSTA, Kauai, Osa Tui, Paul Zina. Sarah Kern, safety, Sarah Tochiki, students, subs, substitutes, union|
More than 150 teachers from schools on Kauai took part in informational sign-waving before and after classes Tuesday, raising health concerns about a lack of consistent COVID-19 protocols, pressure to not report positive cases, and persistent staffing shortages that have forced the highest-ranking public school official on the Garden Island to fill in as a substitute
kkerr@hsta.org2021-09-24T20:29:27-10:00September 24, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: Aaron Kubo, East Hawaii, educators, Edwin Kagawa, Hilo, Hilo Chapter, HSTA, informational picket, Osa Tui, pickets, safety, teachers union|
Teachers from all around East Hawaii conducted informational picketing late Friday afternoon outside the State Office Building in Hilo, raising concerns about a lack of uniform health protocols in public schools.
Terri Inefuku2021-09-08T13:39:17-10:00September 7, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: class, coronavirus, COVID-19, grievance, Hawaii State Department of Education, HIDOE, HSTA, unsafe conditions|
HSTA has filed two class grievances over unsafe working conditions during the pandemic and the state’s directive that unvaccinated education employees must be tested for COVID-19 weekly. Class grievances represent all teachers who have been wronged by action or inaction on the part of the employer.
Terri Inefuku2021-09-03T18:42:03-10:00September 3, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, Negotiations, News|Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, emergency proclamation, gov. david ige, Hawaii Revised Statutes, Hawaii State Teachers Association, HSTA, informal discussion, Negotiations|
Despite HSTA expressing serious concerns about inconsistent protocols and reports from members of transmission of COVID-19 on school campuses, interim Superintendent Keith Hayashi continued to assert that health safety guidelines are being followed and that there had been no evidence of transmission or clusters of COVID-19 at schools.
Terri Inefuku2021-08-28T13:00:20-10:00August 27, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: Board of Education, BOE, Bruce Voss, coronavirus, COVID-19, Hawaii Board of Education, HSTA, interim superintendent, Keith Hayashi, mandate, Parents for Public Schools Hawaii, safe schools safe communities, safety, testing, vaccination, vaccine|
The system is beginning to buckle under the strain of increased school personnel on quarantine and continued days of record COVID-19 counts.
Evan Kumasaki2021-08-09T13:57:16-10:00August 9, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: COVID-19, HSTA, National Education Association, NEA, questions, survey, vaccine|
The NEA Center for Communications will be conducting a national survey of members over the next two weeks.
Terri Inefuku2021-08-12T11:42:35-10:00August 5, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: collective bargaining, coronavirus, COVID-19, emergency proclamation, gov. david ige, Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, Hawaii Government Employees Association, HFFA, HGEA, HSTA, mandate, SHOPO, State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers, UHPA, United Public Workers, University of Hawaii Professional Assembly, UPW, vaccine|
“The public-sector unions reached out to the governor’s office earlier this week to initiate discussions about the vaccine mandate, but our request was denied. We will continue to fight for open discussions about these important decisions that affect public employees, our government operations, and our community.”
Terri Inefuku2021-07-30T16:22:02-10:00July 30, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: dues, freeze, Hawaii State Teachers Association, HSTA, HSTA Board of Directors, members|
HSTA Secretary-Treasurer Lisa Morrison said, "With the hardships members have endured recently and the fact that they are taking home smaller paychecks without the 21 hours of PD, we feel now is not the right time to ask our members to pay more.”