The airlines are expected to shed more Hawaii-based employees as they combine operations over the next year.

Kalani Werner, who is up for re-election as state director, was put on trial by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees earlier this week.

Japanese laborers were unable to sway powerful plantation owners and hysterical English-language newspaper editors in 1909, but they set changes in motion that would dramatically shape modern Hawaii. 

Updated: Groups with ties to the politically influential union have doled out more than $70,000 since 2021 to teach more than a dozen people to run better campaigns.

Two-tiered settlement with the Green administration awards government employees back pay of either $10,000 or $20,000, depending on how many days they worked.

Honolulu has a much larger police force, and the city might have to put up considerably more than the $13 million that Maui agreed to pay.

HGEA estimated that the arbitration decision could cost the state as much as $150 million.

Expected settlements could put a significant dent into county budgets. The state, meanwhile, has yet to enter into negotiations with unions over the issue.

Members of IBEW 1260 had to pick up the pieces after former business manager Brian Ahakuelo and his wife were convicted.

But Jonathan Taum also was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for the attack, so he isn’t expected back at work anytime soon.