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).
Jill Meinecke2024-05-17T10:09:55-10:00May 14, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: collective bargaining, contract ratification, Gov. Josh Green, HSTA Convention, HSTA Maui Chapter, Joan Husted, Jr., maui wildfires, Osa Tui, union advocacy|
Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association President Osa Tui, Jr. honored the union’s foundations while advocating for a unified future at HSTA’s 51st annual state convention on April 13.
Jill Meinecke2024-04-11T12:34:42-10:00April 11, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Curt Otaguro, fire alarm systems, fire drills, Hawaii Board of Education, Hawaii Department of Education, HIDOE, Jr., Osa Tui|
A review by the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education found that the number of public schools without working fire alarm systems more than doubled from 11 the department reported in January to 22 this month.
Jill Meinecke2024-03-27T10:55:37-10:00March 27, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Gov. Josh Green, HSTA President Osa Tui, Jr., King Kamehameha III Elementary, King Kamehameha III Elementary at Pulelehua, Lahaina wildfires, maui wildfires, Princess Nāhi‘ena‘ena Elementary, Rep. Jill Tokuda, Rep. Justin Woodson, Sen. Mazie Hirono, Warren Haruki|
Teachers, staff and students at Maui’s King Kamehameha III Elementary School now have a new campus to call home.
Jill Meinecke2024-02-16T15:15:36-10:00February 16, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: HSTA members, Institute Day 2024, Jr., Osa Tui, Teacher Institute Day, Teacher Institute Week|
In his Institute Day address, HSTA President Osa Tui, Jr. reflected on the year’s major highs and lows, and what’s ahead for Hawaiʻi educators and our union.
Terri Inefuku2024-01-11T14:08:04-10:00January 11, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, Curt Otaguro, Department of Education, fire alarm systems, fire alarms, Hawaii State Department of Education, HIDOE, inspections, Jr., Osa Tui, repairs, replacement, Warren Haruki|
The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE) says it’s working to replace inoperable fire alarm systems at 11 schools at a cost of about $14 million after confirming in December that nearly 10% of the state’s public schools failed fire inspections last school year.
Jill Meinecke2023-12-21T17:01:20-10:00December 21, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: federal funding, FEMA, Hawaii Board of Education, Hawaiian immersion, Jr., Keith Hayashi, King Kamehameha III Elementary, Lahaina, Maui, maui wildfires, Osa Tui, Princess Nāhiʻenaʻena, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers|
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to complete construction on a temporary site for King Kamehameha III Elementary at Pulelehua on Maui at the end of February.
