be taking part in this coast-wide shut down on Juneteenth. Canada’s hands are not clean either, in the past or the present. We also had slavery; there was the internment of Japanese Canadians, the incident of the Komagata Maru and the residential schools. In the present day we have the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) and we see systemic racism in Canadian society.”

ILWU Canada Grainworkers Union Local 333 honored Juneteenth by stopping work for 9 minutes on June 19 in solidarity with West Coast port shutdown.

As our ILWU counterparts on the West Coast shut down their ports and demonstrated in the streets, ILWU Local 142 took a stand of their own in honor of Juneteenth and Black Lives Matter.

ILWU Local 142 is no stranger to taking bold and progressive political stances when it comes to social justice, as Local President Donna Domingo points out in her message (see far right).

High school graduation for the class of 2020 had ceremonies that were a little different this year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the Harriet Bouslog Labor Scholarship still awarded monies to deserving children, relatives, and grandchildren of our hardworking Local 142 members just like it has for the past 31 years.

Braeden Coloma 
Braeden’s grandfather Tom Poy worked at Hamakua Sugar on the Big Island.

Hannah Asano 
Hannah’s great-aunt is Amelia Among Rego, who worked at Dole.

COVID-19, the illness produced by the novel coronavirus is showing no signs of slowing down in Hawaii and across the world. Even though more testing would logically lead to a higher number of cases, the rate relative to those proportions is still steadily climbing. Until a viable vaccine comes along, face masks, along with physical distancing, remain the most effective tools we have for reducing spread of the virus.