More than three years after the last pandemic emergency order, firefighters are still negotiating their hazard payments with the city.

Working in organized labor can be lucrative — for some.

Guards and thousands of other state workers still haven’t been paid, and interest has started accruing.

Counties also will have to come up with money to pay for raises for thousands of their workers, who are covered under the same contracts.

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.