Labor

At the start of this year, the Healthcare Association of Hawaiʻi released a key report about workforce development. It essentially boils down to where the job shortages are in our hospitals and health care facilities.

What are the ingredients needed to grow Hawaiʻi’s tech industry? For one group, it starts with a Zip Pac. Carlo Liquido is the executive director of Pi’ikū, a nonprofit training early-career coders.

Negotiations with management ended Monday night with no agreement on a new contract.

Nurses at The Queen's Medical Center have called off their planned strike as they reached a tentative agreement with hospital management on a three-year collective bargaining agreement. The Hawaiʻi Nurses' Association and hospital management came to a compromise around 1 a.m. Monday after days of 12-hour negotiations and assistance from a federal mediator.

Bargaining teams from Maui Health/Kaiser Permanente and United Nurses and Health Care Employees of Hawaii representing more than 900 workers on Maui and Lānaʻi have come to an agreement on a historic new contract that was ratified this week by union members.

Educational partnerships on Moloka’i are allowing more homegrown medical workers to pursue their careers while staying on island. HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol has more.

About 1,900 unionized nurses working at Queen’s Medical Center will hold a three-day strike later this month as they continue contract negotiations.

Hear the latest updates on Kīlauea's volcanic activity; How do widespread coconut plantations on Pacific atolls affect native vegetation?

In case you missed it on The Conversation this week, we learned about the efforts to bring back old-school baseball, what the possible dismantling of the federal DOE means for Hawaiʻi and more.

Tracy Sialega's last day as a customer service agent for Hawaiian Airlines in Seattle is this Friday. She was terminated for violating the company's tattoo policy. The Conversation talked to her about how she is asking the company to rethink its policy.