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Hawaii Division Hosts 39Th Annual Recognition Awards Banquet Maui OF March/April 2016 VOICE THE ILWU page 1 HAWAII Volume 56 • No. 2 The VOICE of the ILWU—Published by Local 142, International Longshore & Warehouse Union March/April 2016 Maui awards recognize service ADDRESS L A to members and community BE L HC&S Company members (from left) Business Agent Joe Aquino, Wesley Bissen, Kelly Ruidas, Chair Daniel Martinez, Zenaida Andaya, Ben Wilson, Merlita Crespin, Rodney Medeiros, Conchita DeCambra, and Francis Martin, accepting the Outstanding Unit Award (501 or more members) from their Business Agent Steven Lee. Ruidas also received On the Inside recognition as Outstanding Unit Leadership (male). Martinez also received the Outstanding Unit Chairperson International President’s Award (male). DeCambra also received recognition as the Outstanding Pensioner (female). Martin also received the Outstanding Unit Member Award (male). message on the challenges ahead in 2016 ....................2 KAHULUI—Maui Division around work during the year Makena Beach and Golf This month: Get to know your held their version of the in promoting union programs Resort, Four Seasons Titled Officers and Academy Awards to recognize which are beneficial to the Resort Lanai, The Westin Kauai, Hawaii, and individuals and units within membership, their families Maui, and more Maui Maui Divisions ............... 3-5 the division for exceptional all- and the community. award winners on page 7 (“Get to know your Oahu and Hawaii Longshore Divisions” will be featured in Hawaii Division hosts 39th Annual a future issue of the VOICE) Recognition Awards Banquet Statewide Golf ........................8 By Joanne Kealoha Social Services Coordinator Hawaii Division started a tradition 39 years ago that other Divisions have emulated to recognize outstanding units, members, and pensioner clubs. The Annual Awards Banquet brings together staff, rank-and-file members, pensioners, and guests, including elected officials, to celebrate the achievements of the units and members and to provide another opportunity for everyone to come together as an ohana. This year’s banquet was held on January 30 at Nani Mau Gardens in Hilo. Unit 1402 - Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corp received the award for Outstanding Unit, 100 members and over (General —continued on page 6 Trades). The award was accepted by all Unit 1402 members in attendance at the banquet. OF page 2 VOICE THE ILWU March/April 2016 N e w s f r o m T h e D i s p a t c h e r President’s message: What we learned in 2015 and the challenges ahead Brothers and Sisters, dockworkers to operate at unsafe speeds. Coast Longshore Division’s page on I want to begin by wishing you all a Fortunately, both amendments were Facebook. When the Coast officers post an happy and healthy New Year. I hope you defeated. Representative Dan Newhouse Action Alert on Facebook, please respond enjoyed some well-deserved time with of Washington State withdrew his anti- immediately by contacting your elected family and friends over the holidays. I also ILWU proposal due to lack of support, officials in Congress and respectfully want to thank the many ILWU members and an amendment proposed by fellow urging them to vote according to our who donated holiday toys to children from Washington State Republican Dave Action Alert instructions. To increase the families facing hard times. Your efforts Reichert was defeated in the House of impact, please share these alerts with your brought joy to thousands of working-class Representatives. friends, family and co-workers. families who are struggling to survive in This victory was possible because of a Another issue to watch in Congress this economy that leaves out so many. unified response from our rank-and-file this year is the tax on health care plans Now that 2016 has arrived, I’d like to longshore workers and important help that’s scheduled to take effect in 2018. share some reflections on the past year and from our longtime friends and allies. We It’s unfairly called the “Cadillac tax” and look ahead to the future of the ILWU. also benefited from the hard work from our was aimed primarily at union members website, and Facebook. If there’s a Last year we faced some challenges that Longshore Legislative Action Committee who negotiated excellent health care decision to endorse, the Titled Officers will tested our resolve. This was especially and support from our new ally and former benefits, such as longshore workers. When be sure every member receives information true for thousands of longshore workers Speaker of the House, Dick Gephardt. it was first proposed to be part of the about any candidate who deserves special who fought a lengthy contract fight that After the bad amendments were Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), I consideration by ILWU members. we settled last February. Although that defeated, Newhouse introduced another urged other union leaders and the AFL- Make no mistake, the legislative attack agreement was overwhelmingly ratified piece of anti-ILWU legislation called the CIO brass to oppose any tax because we on us, orchestrated by Big Business, will by rank-and-file members, the story didn’t “Economics Act,” co-authored by anti- wanted a single-payer health care system. continue in 2016 and beyond. To repel end there. union Democrat Kurt Schrader of Oregon. Unfortunately, only one other union was these attacks and make economic and Our success triggered a backlash by big Their bill would encourage federal court willing to take that step, so the Cadillac social gains, the ILWU must be fully business interests who brought their anti- injunctions to break our union along with tax went forward. The good news is that engaged in the political process. Later this union legislative proposals to Congress metrics legislation that could dangerously many unions and even some business year we will be asking you to contribute as soon as we settled the contract. Their speed up work on the docks. Should groups now share our concern and pushed to the ILWU Political Action Fund, which goal was to weaken our union by stripping similar legislation appear in Congress, the Congress late last year to delay the tax enables us to support candidates who fight away rights secured 80 years ago by the ILWU will be well informed and ready to until 2020. We will continue the fight to for what we need and want. courageous generation of waterfront fight. remove the tax entirely, and presidential The challenges facing union members workers who endured bitter strikes and One benefit from this experience was candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary and the working class in 2016 are gave their lives to win better working witnessing the impressive mobilization Clinton have both pledged to oppose the considerable. That being said, 2016 is a conditions and establish our union. Back by individual longshore members. When tax if elected. new year for the ILWU. We are back to then, employers and their political friends the ILWU Longshore Division issued 2016 is an election year, which gives us work without the distraction of longshore always accused union members of hurting coordinated Action Alerts to members by the opportunity to elect a friendly Congress negotiations. We will continue to protect the economy. Unfortunately, not much has email, fax and – for the first time, social and President. The Titled Officers have our jobs and jurisdiction and the ILWU changed. media – hundreds of you responded by created a survey that’s being sent to will remain a staple on the west coast Today, we’re facing different fights, making phone calls to key members of candidates, asking where they stand on for generations to come. If we can stick but the fundamentals remain unchanged, Congressional committees, and your issues that matter most to ILWU members, together and help each other, we can help including unfair claims that dockworkers voices were heard. including union rights, Social Security and revive the labor movement and continue to were solely responsible for all delays on This experiment to activate members Medicare, single-payer health care—and progress as a union. the docks last year—while ignoring the on a large scale by using Facebook was how to make America’s economy work for An injury to one is an injury to all. root causes of industry-created congestion. a success, and we will continue to use everyone—not just fat-cats on Wall Street. The unfair claims were repeated late social media when Longshore voices need The results of this survey will be shared In solidarity, last year when two members of Congress to make a difference. To be successful, with the ILWU International Executive Robert McEllrath tried to amend an important transportation we ask that members listen to their local Board in March as well as published in International President. bill with proposals that would have forced officers for updates—and follow the ILWU an article in The Dispatcher, the ILWU Local 21 members honored for Columbia River rescue LONGVIEW, Wash.—Three Local 21 the mass of river debris that collected members were honored last month by the among the pilings in an area shaded by Port of Longview for rescuing a mariner the ship. They spotted a hard hat, but who fell overboard into the Columbia still couldn’t find anyone nearby. After River on December 31. more searching, they discovered a man The incident happened at 11 o’clock in who was soaking wet, shivering and the morning on New Year’s Eve day when clinging to one of the pilings. He wasn’t it was still bitter cold at Berth 2 where the wearing a lifejacket, spoke little English vessel “Sadlers Wells” was being loaded and declined to provide his name, but the with soda ash.
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