| 1934: |
HGEA is established. |
| 1935: |
Campbell Crozier elected first HGEA president.
Salary Restoration Act restores 10 percent pay cut. |
| 1937: | Charles Kendall elected HGEA president.
HGEA takes non-militant, non-partisan-politics position. |
| 1938: | Association gains members on Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Molokai and Hawaii.
First General Council held. |
| 1939: | Civil Service Law passes. |
| 1941: | Classification Act guarantees five-day work week, creates system
and job classification for territorial government employees. |
| 1945: | Big Island and Kauai chapters are formed. |
| 1946: | Maui Chapter is established.
Charles Kendall becomes HGEA’s first Executive Director. |
| 1949: | Public employees allowed to choose a union or association as
their exclusive representative. |
| 1953: | Legislature cuts sick leave and vacation benefits, freezes salaries
and downgrades pay rates. |
| 1954: | HGEA General Council reverses ban on political action.
HGEA throws support behind “Democratic Revolution.” |
| 1959: | Statehood for Hawaii. |
| 1961: | HGEA becomes incorporated.
Health Fund Law establishes state-subsidized medical insurance.
Equal Pay for Equal Work Act makes pay scales uniform throughout state. |
| 1968: | State Constitutional Convention approves public employees’
right to collective bargaining. |
| 1970: | Collective Bargaining in Public Employment Law passes. |
| 1971: | HGEA affiliates with AFSCME.
HGEA becomes exclusive representative for Units 2 and 6. |
| 1972: | Units 3, 4, and 13 choose HGEA. |
| 1973: | Unit 8 joins HGEA. |
| 1974: | Managerial and Excluded Employees Unit organizes. |
| 1979: | Unit 9 chooses HGEA. |
| 1984: | HGEA, UPW, HSTA, and UHPA form coalition and nearly strike. |
| 1994: | Units 3, 4, and 13 stage first-ever strike. |
| 1995: | HGEA gains final and binding arbitration.
HGEA becomes first union to offer its own Internet service in Hawaii. |
| 1996: | Arbitration panels award pay raises to HGEA units. |
| 1999: | HGEA starts its own radio show, “Voice of Labor.” |
| 2001: | Legislature removes arbitration and reinstates right to strike. |
| 2002: | Legislature restores arbitration for Unit 9. |
| 2003: | Legislature overrides veto to restore arbitration for Units 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 13. |
| 2005: | Arbitration panels award pay raises to HGEA bargaining units. |
| 2007: | HGEA and the employers reach a contract settlement, including increases to
pay and other non-cost items for Units 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 13.
Arbitration panel awards pay raises to Unit 9. |
| 2008: | HGEA unveils its new Statewide Education & Training program. |
| 2010: | HGEA joins social network sites Facebook and Twitter. |