Minutes from chapter’s Executive Committee Meeting – 7/12/17

• Beginning of year plans: one-stop, orientation, tabling (20 min.)
  • Working document linked above
• Contract campaign plan (20 min.)
  • How to take maximum advantage, influence 61B:
  • Train stewards on survey – big task for all of September.
  • Luke on Bargaining Team – official but non-voting. How do we make that matter: accountability, reportage. Formal, systematic feedback mechanisms: what meetings are happening, what topics were discussed. What are the rules of engagement? Written reports? Reports at Chapter meetings? An office hour? A GA forum? Luke should also be representing Adjuncts, NTAs? Yes, but technically how?
  • Need to develop narratives & examples from person experiences
  • Contract demands thru chapter meetings and otherwise, to DA by end of October. Can we extend this discussion at Chapter meetings into October or does that cut too close?
  • What is the timeline, and creating our own timeline at this chapter – a group or subcommittee at the chapter both to build our own work and to influence 61 Broadway’s strategy
  • What’s up with course reduction for FTers?
  • Internet address for contract advisory groups
  • Have to figure out what is do-able, and whether to have a laundry list or a short prioritized list. Will the survey inform this decision?
• Resolutions proposal (25 min.)
  • Working document linked above
  • We will finalize this proposal at August EC and bring to Sept chapt mtg for ratification
• Plan chapter meetings for the year (20 min.)
  • Set dates & frequency
    • Two a semester – see below for why not more. Tuesday, Sept. 19 – 12:30; Try a 4:30 PM meeting – food is out then, give GAs things to do, meeting starts closer to 5. Wednesday, Nov. 15 – 4:30
  • Involving shop stewards
  • Beware of meeting fatigue. Don’t let it distract from organizing: workshops, department meeting – building out to more people, not just speaking to the same 30-40 people again and again.
  • Reinvigorate by voting on everything? Experiment with different processes until we find one that works? This should be a place where people weigh in and tell us what we should be doing at LM, DA, etc.
  • How do we get people to feel this matters?
  • L-M: Reportage, and getting suggestions for agendas for those meetings.
  • DA: reportage and getting suggestions on what to do there.
  • Collective bargaining suggestions can be voted on.
  • How to deal with far-flung campuses? Schedule meetings there too – once a semester at each campus?  
• Misc items (5 min)
  • DSA interested in solidarity work w/ us; turnout at B&H pickets
  • Been in some talks with UAW folks organizing at the New School, and they are eager to support our union struggle.
  • CAP mtg monthly picketing — does this mean we will organize something for August?
  • how would folks feel about the Free CUNY campaign folks organizing a Free CUNY petition event outside CUNY Central?