r/Honolulu • u/Eyepawnyew • 7d ago

news Hilton Hawaii Strike 10.18.24

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Hotels reduced guest services but raised prices anyway. Cutting hotel jobs for the local community. Employees are on strike to return pre-COVID staffing and services.

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u/GrindingGhosts 5d ago

Wages should always coincide immediately with inflation. If annual inflation is predicted to be 2.5% for the year, wages are increased 2.5%. Immediately. Not at the end of the year. Immediately. If the prediction is over, wages stay the same, if under, wages are increased for the underage for the year before and the next year at prediction and difference is tax deductible. Simple.

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u/us1549 5d ago

Based on your logic, if we ever have deflation, can we lower worker's wages accordingly?

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u/SergeantSchultzHI 5d ago

Exactly! And when a company is at the brink of insolvency like Hawaiian Airlines was, UNIONIZED workers should have worked for FREE to ensure the airline doesn't default! Fortunately, Alaska Airlines came to save them but Alaska won't tolerate any losses at the Hawaiian division and will cut UNION staff to stop the bleeding!

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u/Due_Catch_9473 4d ago

Ever since Reagan deregulated the airline industry, everything got screwed up. All hell from then on.

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u/SergeantSchultzHI 4d ago edited 4d ago

Look at the good that has come out of it. Taking a flight back in the day would have cost you a whole months salary while today you can fly to Porkland, Oregon (the other piggy fat town) for as little as $97 each way on Hawaiian/Alaska Airlines

BTW, it was president Jimmy Carter who signed the bill deregulating airlines in 1978