Share | |  Where Are the Workers  Hawaii businesses may soon be
importing more labor  Sometimes, it takes a village to see the
future. The Hilton Hawaiian Village can be a kind of microcosm
of Hawaii's impending work force crisis.  "The cost of benefits,
especially medical, for older workers is really high," says
Cherlyn Logan, Hilton's Hawaii Region human resources vice
president. However, the basic demographic imperative facing
Logan is the need to import Asian replacements for increasing
numbers of retirees, since few young local workers are available
or interested in jobs such as housekeeping. "We can always find
immigrants, but that brings problems with language and sometimes
worker quality," she says.  Hawaii Department of Education Human
Resources Director Faye Ikei says the DOE is stepping up
Mainland recruitment for tough-to-fill slots, such as special
education, math and science. There are fewer young Hawaii
residents studying teaching these days, she says.  These are
real-time examples of an emergi