The Hilton Hawaiian Village Local 5 Union workers are continuing their strike. The strike started at 4 AM on Thursday, several hundred workers.
It is amazing how Hilton manages to downplay negative publicity in the media. E.g., they had drownings in that area, including at the Lagoon, in the last several years. Yet the media coverage of this was next to none.
Likewise re this strike. Here is an article in yesterday’s Star Advertiser about the Hilton strike. But no updates in today’s paper. In the newspaper and other media Hilton presents it like it is no big deal. They gotta be kidding. That strike is massive, all day long. The loud chanting etc started before 6 AM on Thursday. You could hear it probably a mile away. All day long. Yesterday the strikers started just past 6 AM and finished at midnight. It is amazing to read that the Hilton management says that they would not give discounts to their guests.
An update as of October 18: Today the Hilton workers continue their strike. Their contract with Hilton expired this past summer. Their concern is what they see as Hilton’s effort to lock them for several years into a “recession contract.” They are also pointing out that the Hilton company got $180 million in federal stimulus money.
For The Ilikai: it was very loud for us on Thursday, but not any more because the strikers are on the other side of the Hilton complex.