Join a ‘No Kings!’ Day of Defiance event on June 14

2025-06-13T15:38:56-10:00June 10, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

On Saturday, June 14, numerous ‘No Kings!’ Day of Defiance events are planned across the Hawaiian islands as an all-out effort to protect democracy and the U.S. Constitution, led by Indivisible Hawai’i Statewide Network. 

HSTA’s communications director wins 2025 national public relations award

2025-06-09T11:11:14-10:00June 9, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

In front of communications colleagues from teachers’ unions across the country, Keoki Kerr, the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association’s Director of Communications, won the prestigious 2025 Bill Guy PR Person of the Year award last month in Minneapolis. 

HSTA hosts aspiring educator open house

2025-05-20T15:14:50-10:00May 19, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Around 25 aspiring educators from university and community college programs across the state gathered at the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association’s headquarters on Oʻahu late last month for an open house to learn the value of unionism.

HSTA celebrates newly-named Koʻolau Chapter in Kualoa ceremony

2025-05-16T11:30:51-10:00May 12, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association leaders gathered Saturday at Kualoa Regional Park on Oʻahu to celebrate the renaming of its Koʻolau Chapter, formerly called Windward Chapter.

10+ Maui teachers detained, questioned in erroneous federal immigration raid

2025-05-09T10:39:48-10:00May 8, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

‘The whole situation was really overwhelming and traumatic for all of us’ Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2025 A Maui teacher went public Thursday with the harrowing story of gun-toting federal agents waking her and about 10 public school teachers here on non-immigrant visas early Tuesday morning and detaining them for at least 45 minutes in a raid searching for a man who apparently hadn’t lived in the home for more than a year. The teacher is a U.S. citizen who requested anonymity to protect her identity and the names of her educator colleagues who suffered through what [...]

Lawmakers seek to ensure state employees will be defended in civil lawsuits

2025-04-29T09:18:17-10:00April 29, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

State lawmakers have recommended final approval of a new law that clarifies the state's duty to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees in civil legal actions.

HSTA president tells convention delegates why the union rejected a contract extension

2025-04-15T18:46:55-10:00April 15, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association President Osa Tui, Jr. revealed to delegates at the union’s 2025 State Convention that the state had offered educators a two-year extension on its existing contract with annual 4% increases without the possibility of negotiating any other terms or working conditions. After careful consideration, HSTA leadership rejected the offer, he said. 

U.S. DOE plans to lay off nearly half its workforce

2025-03-14T14:46:17-10:00March 11, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The U.S. Department of Education said Tuesday it would lay off nearly half its staff, as federal government agencies worked to meet President Donald Trump’s Thursday deadline for them to submit plans for a second round of mass layoffs.

HSTA requests pandemic hazard pay for teachers

2025-01-24T14:53:47-10:00January 23, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association is asking state lawmakers for a one-time hazard pay bonus for the thousands of public and charter school teachers who worked directly with students during the pandemic.

3 teachers with prior non-HIDOE teaching experience win salary adjustments

2024-11-07T14:44:19-10:00November 7, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

The Hawaiʻi Labor Relations Board (HLRB) last week ruled in favor of three teachers who brought a case related to the Fall 2022 repricing of Bargaining Unit 05 (BU 05) employees carried out by the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE).

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