AiKea believes in teaching youth how to organize around the issues they care about. That’s why AiKea launched an Organizing Beyond Barriers internship program, AiKea clubs at Mililani, Radford and Farrington High Schools and at UH Manoa.
Aston Waikiki Beach and Hotel Renew workers are fighting for a fair process to decide whether to unionize. This episode features 3 housekeepers who work at these hotels: Lorena Andrada, MJ Padaca, and Lydia Macadangdang.
AiKea won a historic victory for Turtle Bay Resort workers and for Hawai’i. For decades, residents of the North Shore of Oahu have been fighting to keep the country country and preserve good, local jobs. Learn more about the development struggle at Turtle Bay Resort and how community members and UNITE HERE Local 5 came together to fight the mainland banks and developers.
AiKea members Rodney Nakashima, Joli Tokusato, Mark Kamahele, Amanda Ybanez, and Cindy Aban are running for Honolulu Neighborhood Board seats.
Hotel workers at the Aston Waikiki Beach and Hotel Renew are organizing for a fair process to decide whether to unionize. This is the first time since 2002 that Waikiki hotel workers are organizing for union representation from the ground up.
Over 1,900 Kaiser Permanente employees who are members of UNITE HERE Local 5 went on a 6-day strike.
AiKea was at the State Legislature’s Opening Day. Hear more about the issues we’ll be working on in 2015.
We discuss how Kaiser Permanente is hurting Hawaii’s workers, patients, and the whole community. This episode’s guests are Ray Bragado, a Surgical Tech at Kaiser Permanente Moanalua, and Colleen Fewer, an Organizer at UNITE HERE Local 5 (the labor union representing nearly 2,000 Kaiser workers.)
AiKea and Na Mea Hawaii were honored at the Hawai’i Peoples Fund’s annual dinner. Local activists and grassroots organizations across a range of issues came together to celebrate another year of activism and fighting for real change. This year’s theme was “Another Hawai’i is Possible.” We were humbled to be honored alongside Na Mea Hawai’i.
AiKea reports on: (1) UH graduate students learn how to organize, (2) High school AiKea Club members educate their teachers on the crisis in our #1 industry that directly impacts our schools, (3) Community groups host a screening of the films “Delano Manongs,” “The Great Hawai’i Sugar Strike,” and “Seeds of Hope” and discuss labor issues & more, (4) AiKea continues to build power by door knocking in North Shore!