This is a summary of the discussion we had at the previous Tenant union Workshop:
The new strategy of speaking with 2-3 people per building and expanding to the entire building if tenants are having issues with LL/PM have been successful in getting us more leads.
However, now that we are collecting tenant information at their doors and we are encouraging them to speak with their neighbors while we are there, they don’t necessarily need to come to the workshops.
We should continue holding them, on the same Saturday every month, and ideally running bilingual meetings (with childcare some day). We will have to start advertising them in other ways (I have heard posting flyers around town does work well, as hard it is to believe). And there is a chance that a tenant we canvas might not want to speak with us at their door, but they may come to a meeting in the future.
With the Focus Campaign up for renewal in September, everyone thought it would be good to see how things are looking then. If we wish to continue with Tenant Union work, then we can set a more regular schedule for these meetings.
In the meantime, we have a decent workflow for the Solidarity.Tech app when it comes to canvassing tenants. We still need an improved workflow for getting information into the About the Tenant Associations category subcategory and a thread made for TAs with high potential.
We are going to start doing a better job of tracking which buildings we are canvassing so we can skip buildings with low organizing potential and make sure we speak to enough people at the buildings with potential.
We started the About the Tenant Associations category subcategory to start tracking and helping tenants. The entire subcategory is locked and only visible to WCU Members. The plan is to work on complaints/issues tenants are facing in one building/apartment complex in a single location.