2025-06-30 Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

[chima (Harpreet Chima)]

2025-06-30 Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes

• Meeting Notes
• Recording
• Transcript
• Drive Folder

Attendance

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

General Meeting

Date: 2025-06-30T07:00:00Z

Recording Check

• Ensure that the meeting is being recorded.

Roll Call & Introductions

• Steering Committee (state your roles)
• Quorum
• Introductions (New Members)

Reports of Members Sick or in Distress

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Calendar Related Topics

Old Business

Organizing Conversation Training

Time: 1 minute

• Put it in your calendars; invite any friends who might be interested

@chima

You can review the outline of the workshop here.

At the last General Meeting, we voted to pair having the training with a BBQ on July 26th @ 10AM - 12PM. Location is TBD.

Unioning Workplaces

Time: 1 minute

• Need to schedule another meeting (CALENDAR)

@chima

Here is a folder with the documents below and outside resources.

We have two documents we are working on:

Explaining unions / benefits of workplace organizing. Based on people’s prior experiences trying to talk to their coworkers, having an outside source that could help explain unions/organizing would help cut down on the amount of explaining they had to do as well as lend credibility to their own organizing efforts.

A plan for how WCU could help organize a workplace - by @NoraG
Most of the guides out there are made for a worker organizing their coworkers. A plan like this shows how an outside organization can help and lower the risk for workers trying to organize.

New Business

New Member Orientation

Time: 5 minutes

• Schedule new orientation sessions (CALENDAR)

Tenant Union Workshop Reminder

• Two weeks until workshop on July 12th - must canvas a lot
• Schedule additional canvassing days (CALENDAR)

Calendar

Time: 25 Minutes

July 2024

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
		1	2	3	4	5 TU 10-12
6 TU 10-12Know Your Rights (4PM-6PM)	7 TU 6-8	8	9	10 TU 6-8	11	12 (TU Workshop 10AM-12PM)
13	14	15	16	17 TU 6-8	18	19
20 New Member Orientation	21 WCU Article 6-8	22	23	24 Unionizing Materials	25	26 (Organizing Conversations 10AM-12PM)
27	28 Reading GRoup 6-8	29	30	31 TU 6-8

August 2024

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8 New Member Orientation 6-8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16 TU Workshop 10-12 and Org Conv BBQ 12-2
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
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Non-Calendar Related Topics

Old Business

Vote by Proxy

Time: 10 minutes

• Vote on how we want to proceed with this issue.

You can find the current discussion on this topic here: Discussion: Proxy voting via delegates

The People from Outside Meeting Discussion

Time: 30 minutes

• Vote on the kinds of meetings we want these assemblies to be.

Current discussion: Discussion: Unity Assemblies

Why Liberals Lose WCU Article Outline

Time: 20 minutes

• Review article article and vote on a final version

Current discussion and link to outline/article draft: WCU Article: Why Liberals Lose: Josh Harder, Abundance Caucus, and Making Neoliberalism Great Again

New Business

Present Solidarity Tech

Time: 15 minutes

• Presentation and discussion on using https://solidarity.tech/

• Vote on if WCU should move forward with using this software

Tenant Union Update

Time: 20 minutes

• General TU updates - 2025-06 Tenant Union Campaign Update
• Update about the canvassing map - 10 minutes

[Englishpete08]

I was wondering if we could take a quick moment during the meeting to talk about Reading Group and set a date for it this month? @HipGnosis was asking me about starting up Reading Group again a few days ago. I’ve honestly been very inconsistent with it and have been meaning to have a more consistent time frame for it and try to get more people to attend.

If possible, I’d prefer a date to do Reading Group on Thursday, July 17th or Saturday, July 19th.

I’m still working on narrowing down a possible reading choice for July, but have some leads. @HipGnosis mentioned to me about The Death of the Liberal Class (2010) by Chris Hedges, which I found a copy of recently. It’s also all available on The Anarchist Library for free. If we felt like returning to reading the same book for a few months.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chris-hedges-death-of-the-liberal-class

For Reading Group, I’ve been trying to stick with pieces that are related to something relevant to the current political climate or to things we’re talking about/doing internally. Over time, I would appreciate more suggestions from members as to what they might like to read for Reading Group and will try to ask for suggestions from people individually.

[chima (Harpreet Chima)]

liberals failing is an evergreen topic lol

I haven’t seen the Hedges piece before, but seems similar to Adolph Reed’s recent article: Blinded by Righteous Outrage: From the 1994 Crime Act to Trump 2.0 – Nonsite.org It’s more of a critique of liberal-labor coalition abandoning class struggle than a critique of the moral failings of the liberal class though. Might be interesting to see how much (little) things have changed over the past 16 years when comparing the two articles.