Jill Meinecke2025-06-13T15:38:56-10:00June 10, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: D.C., Indivisible Hawaii Statewide Network, Jr., King Kamehameha, Lisa Gibson, No Kings Day, Osa Tui, peaceful protest, President Donald Trump, Trump adminstration, Washington|
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.
Jill Meinecke2025-06-09T11:11:14-10:00June 9, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Ann Mahi, Bill Guy PR Person of the Year, COVID-19, Hawaii News Now, investigative reporter, Jr., Keoki Kerr, KITV, maui wildfires, NPR, Osa Tui, Pat Saiki, public relations, SEAComm, Wilbert Holck|
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.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-20T15:14:50-10:00May 19, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: AE, Aspiring Educators, Joshua Kamalani, Jr., Kristin Hamada, National Education Association and Advisory Committee of Aspiring Educators (ACAE), NEA, Osa Tui, University of Hawaii|
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.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-16T11:30:51-10:00May 12, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Hawaiian Education Special Committee, Hawaiian language, ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, Jodi Beaty, Jr., Kāneʻohe, Koʻolau Chapter, Koʻolauloa, Koʻolaupoko, Kualoa Regional Park, Oʻahu, Osa Tui, Windward Chapter|
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.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-09T10:39:48-10:00May 8, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Donald Trump, HSTA Maui Chapter, ICE, J1 visa program, Jr., Kahului, non-immigrant visa, Osa Tui, Sen. Brian Schatz, Sen. Mazie Hirono, teacher appreciation week, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement|
‘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 [...]
Jill Meinecke2025-04-29T09:18:17-10:00April 29, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: AFL-CIO, civil action, HSTA contract, Jr., legal protection, Osa Tui, professional employees, Randy Perreira, state workers, statutory protections|
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.
Jill Meinecke2025-04-15T18:46:55-10:00April 15, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: 52nd annual convention, Class VIII, contract, Gov. Josh Green, hazard pay, HSTA Convention, HSTA Negotiations Team, Jr., McKinley High, Negotiations, Osa Tui|
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.
Jill Meinecke2025-03-14T14:46:17-10:00March 11, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Becky Pringle, DOGE, Elon Musk, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, HSTA President Osa Tui, Jr., NEA, President Donald Trump, Trump adminstration, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. DOE, U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda, US. Sen. Brian Schatz|
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.
Jill Meinecke2025-01-24T14:53:47-10:00January 23, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: 2025 legislative session, Bargaining Unit 05, Board of Education, BOE, BU05, BU06, BU07, covid, COVID hazard pay, COVID-19, Department of Education, DOE, hazard pay, Jr., Osa Tui, Rep. Justin Woodson, Sen. Aquino|
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.
Jill Meinecke2024-11-07T14:44:19-10:00November 7, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Andrea Eshelman, Bargaining Unit 05, BU 05, Chapter 89, collective bargaining, compression, Hawaiʻi Labor Relations Board, Hawaii State Department of Education, HIDOE, Jr., Osa Tui|
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).
