ILWU = Shill for the Corporations
May 04, 2012 | 07:38 AM

ILWU members are beginning to lose patience with their leaders as their leaders advocate for unpopular positions with no discernible job implications.

On Lana'i ILWU thugs help David Murdock bully his renters and employees into putting pro-Big Wind signs in their yards. People are scared to go against the man who holds their livelihood and home in his hands and the ILWU is acting as Murdock's thug enforcers.

At the County Council, the ILWU leaders are setting us up for a huge boom in construction with new workers flooding into the state from the mainland, Canada and Mexico.

ILWU leaders control the County Council members and demand that every single unwise development be approved regardless of whether it makes sense, complies with the community plans or will provide employment in the near future.

You wonder why all these zoning changes aren't accompanied by requirements that the developer hire a certain number of local workers within a year of approval or the zoning change is lost?

Because ILWU bosses are NOT looking out for our local workers - they are empire building. They WANT mainland workers to come over here when the economy improves and this huge backlog of projects finally goes. That increases their power and influence (while screwing our local guys next time the economy dips)

If ILWU bosses were looking out for their members, they'd be arranging a steady stream of projects at a level that employs our local workers without encouraging a glut of mainland workers who will take our local guys' jobs next time the economy slows. They'd be asking for start or lose clauses in the zoning changes.

My contacts say that dissatisfaction is building in ILWU ranks. Members are waking up to the fact that their bosses are NOT acting in their best interest.

Karen Chun
Paia