Narrative:

First off I need to say that I cannot even begin to describe how crazy this situation was. There is one particular traffic management coordinator (tmc) here that does absolutely nothing; and today he was the cause of the unsafe. Also; tmc is behind in almost every traffic scenario; but today it was the worst I have ever seen it in my years in the FAA.first off; the sector H should not be working as much airspace as they do. They work west bound departures of hnl and they are responsible for controlling aircraft from four different inbound fixes and sequencing them all. Today the weather was not very good and we were shooting ILS approaches to runway 8L; the tower was no lahso which required approach to give the tower 7 miles in trail and 170 knots. Every day flow puts up on our system information area (sia) what flow is in effect for the hnl airport from xa:00-xb:30 which requires all aircraft inbound of the four fixes to be at 250 knots and 10 miles in trial. This does absolutely nothing for approach; and tmc typically doesn't do a thing after that. There are exceptions of course; and there are two that do more than the other one; but it is still not enough.today the airspace at hnl became virtually unworkable with the amount of traffic that we had. The coordinator; did a great job reaching out when I had literally reach maximum capacity. They told the center; which happens regularly; to hold all of the other arrivals out of the airspace and were actively engaged before with reaching out to the three different sectors and having them slow the aircraft to 230 knots; but this was still not enough. Every plane was pulled back to 170 knots almost as soon as I got contact with them. After the coordinator told the three center sectors we couldn't take any more planes the tmc walked over and asked 'what is going on?' this is absolutely unacceptable!there are many things that need to be changed here; some things have begun to change which is good. But a reoccurring theme is that tmc regularly fails at actually doing their job. Almost daily; the controllers are having to reach out to other sectors and telling them to hold planes; slow them; or to keep them out. This results in extremely dangerous and complex ATC. Something has to be changed with the tmc here in hawaii. I feel like this is something that needs serious attention.

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Title: HCF Controller reported a problem with traffic entering the sector that the Traffic Manager had put into place. Reporter stated this is a reoccurring theme at the facility and wants the problem to be looked into.

Narrative: First off I need to say that I cannot even begin to describe how crazy this situation was. There is one particular Traffic Management Coordinator (TMC) here that does absolutely nothing; and today he was the cause of the unsafe. Also; TMC is behind in almost every traffic scenario; but today it was the worst I have ever seen it in my years in the FAA.First off; the Sector H should not be working as much airspace as they do. They work west bound departures of HNL and they are responsible for controlling aircraft from four different inbound fixes and sequencing them all. Today the weather was not very good and we were shooting ILS approaches to Runway 8L; the Tower was no LAHSO which required Approach to give the Tower 7 miles in trail and 170 knots. Every day flow puts up on our System Information Area (SIA) what flow is in effect for the HNL airport from XA:00-XB:30 which requires all aircraft inbound of the four fixes to be at 250 knots and 10 miles in trial. This does absolutely nothing for approach; and TMC typically doesn't do a thing after that. There are exceptions of course; and there are two that do more than the other one; but it is still not enough.Today the airspace at HNL became virtually unworkable with the amount of traffic that we had. The Coordinator; did a great job reaching out when I had literally reach maximum capacity. They told the Center; which happens regularly; to hold all of the other arrivals out of the airspace and were actively engaged before with reaching out to the three different sectors and having them slow the aircraft to 230 knots; but this was still not enough. Every plane was pulled back to 170 knots almost as soon as I got contact with them. After the coordinator told the three center sectors we couldn't take any more planes the TMC walked over and asked 'What is going on?' This is absolutely unacceptable!There are many things that need to be changed here; some things have begun to change which is good. But a reoccurring theme is that TMC regularly fails at actually doing their job. Almost daily; the controllers are having to reach out to other sectors and telling them to hold planes; slow them; or to keep them out. This results in extremely dangerous and complex ATC. Something has to be changed with the TMC here in Hawaii. I feel like this is something that needs serious attention.

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