Maui Now writer Gary Kubota interviews her. She is credited with improving medical coverage for hotel workers during her 12 years as president and also using her influence to help to stop the eviction of some 250 tenants from Front Street Apartments in Lahaina in 2018. ![]() She talks about working within a labor union with a once overwhelming number of male members and adjusting and learning as she became a union volunteer, the scramble to help sugarcane and pineapple workers and retirees as the agricultural industries faded, and her own personal fight to keep her job as a front desk hotel clerk - a major lesson to her on how unions protect the rights of workers. When Maui resident Donna Domingo started as a cashier at the Maui Lu in Kīhei in the late 1970s, she never thought that one day, she would rise to become the first female president of the Hawaiʻi ILWU Local 142 with 18,000 members statewide, then including longshoremen, hotel workers, and pineapple, sugar, and general trade employees. As she explains, a key to her rise was her passion for the job of helping fellow employees. The climb was steep and long for Maui resident Donna Domingo to rise to become the ILWU Local 142 president – the first woman to become the Local’s president.
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