2025-04-03 Steering Committee Meeting

2025-04-03 WCU Steering Committee Meeting

Meeting Minutes

Attendance

Campaign Coordinator: @chima
Membership Coordinator: @HipGnosis
Education Coordinator: @Englishpete08
Treasurer: @Turcotte
Secretary: @Bozzii

General Meeting

Date: 2025-04-03T07:00:00Z

Recording Check

  • Ensure that the meeting is being recorded.

Roll Call & Introductions

  • Steering Committee
  • Quorum
  • Introductions (New Members)

Reports of Members Sick or in Distress


Unfinished Business

Focus Campaign - Tenant Union (30 mins)

Research Meeting Update

  • Property management research updates
  • Property mapping presentation
  • Property size decisions: What is the largest/smallest unit numbers we want to canvas?
  • How/should we canvas smaller buildings that are clustered together?

Benefits: Easy to canvas neighboring units; maintaining presence where there are active tenants may make recruiting neighbors easier; easier to leverage rent with smaller landlords
Cons: Smaller landlords have less leverage with local elites / harder to leverage them for benefits outside of housing.

Medicare for All (20 mins)

VOTE: Confirm changing day of event to April 26th.

Remaining tasks

  • Physical locations of union offices
  • Finalized list of clinics where larger flyers will be dropped off
  • Sign Up: Days to drop off / hang flyers (should be min a week from today)

One Big Union outreach (20 mins)

Remaining Tasks

  • Contact info for the unions we listed
  • Write a template for email/social media message to send
  • Info package for members that go speak to unions
  • Sign Up: Days to drop off letter at union buildings

Spinach Strike Riot (10 mins)

VOTE: Move event to May 3rd

DSA NCV Organizing Fair (10 mins)

  • Minimum expectations to join as organizers are: send one representative to their biweekly meeting.
  • Vote on if we want to participate on a panel (if we vote to join as an organizer today)

Union Organizing (10 mins)

  • Refocusing on EWOC/adjacent work with helping people unionize their workplaces

Coalition Meetings (30 mins)

Harpreet will introduce / broad discussion.
Should we make this a second focus campaign?

New Business

Secretary Nominations