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?