In honor of International Workers Day, we invited Royal Hawaiian housekeeper Lourdes Maquera and Mililani High School teacher Amy Perruso discuss why workers today still work over 8 hours a day. Hear more about their campaigns around work hours and workload.
(Ka Leo) – By Dillon Ancheta. Members of Aikea UH organized a rally, Wednesday, to bring attention to the need for housing improvements.
AiKea UH organizers rallied for better student housing and more accountability from the administration. On average, a UH student pays $800 a month for their dorm. Yet their dorms are unsanitary and are infested with pests and mold. They are calling on the administration to revise their student housing contract to ensure that students’ living conditions are safe.
(Hawaii News Now) – By Jobeth Devera. Students at University of Hawaii at Manoa are seeking to bring attention to what they’re calling unsanitary living conditions at several residence halls.
To commemorate International Labor Day (May 1), we marched through Waikiki in solidarity with the Aston Waikiki Beach and Hotel Renew workers who are fighting for a fair process to decide whether to unionize.
Our AiKea high school students were one of the many groups who marched through Waikiki for International Labor Day. Students from Waipahu High, Farrington High, and Mililani High presented an art project they worked on together to support the Aston Waikiki Beach and Hotel Renew workers.
UNITE HERE Local 5 has published a new report that shows that illegal vacation rentals have a negative impact on our affordable housing, our economy, and our neighborhoods.
We also have a tri-fold pamphlet that summarizes the main points of the report.
On April 29, AiKea signed up a bunch of students who were interested in joining our Justice Club at Waipahu High School’s Spring Fair. A lot of the youth, including others from Mililani and Farrington as well, will be joining us for our rally at the Aston next Tuesday at 4pm!
AiKea has justice clubs at Mililani High, Farrington High, and Waipahu High. Learn more about our work to organize youth.
We are Waikiki. We welcome our visitors. We clean and serve you. Always with aloha. This may be paradise to you, but it’s not for these workers who clean 18 rooms a day and feel pain on the job.
The workers at the Aston Waikiki Beach and Hotel Renew have been fighting for a fair process to decide whether to unionize for over a year. Management refuses. We will be rallying with them every Friday from 6:30a – 7:30a. Join us!
Reverend Scott Marks from New Haven spoke at our Faith & Labor luncheon about uniting his community to fight for good jobs, safe neighborhoods, and more. Joining him was Cecile Daniels, a Hotel Renew worker, who spoke about her and her coworkers’ struggle for a fair process to decide whether to unionize and their fight for respect on the job.
Thank you to the clergy, lay leaders, and FACE who attended!
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Mahalo to our State Senators for listening to us and acknowledging that HB1850 is fundamentally flawed. The amendments that were adopted are a step forward, but we must remain vigilant in making sure this bill doesn’t move backward.
Meanwhile, people are now “renting” tents on our public beaches on Airbnb.