Corvallis AFSCME Holiday Party!

1. Corvallis AFSCME Holiday Party! Celebrating Our Success Planning Our Next Steps

2. Let’s Celebrate!

3. Celebrate Our Successes! • Fought back and won our Medical Stipend! • Developed a strong Member Action Team (MAT) network! • Our member activism = a stronger contract • Member participation in outreach to other members and the community! • Building relationship with members through 1-on-1 conversations • Lunch and learns and lunchtime rallies • Community outreach with literature handouts, City Council testimony and picketing • MAT walkabouts to every department, strengthening relationships with our membership.

4. Celebrate Member Action! Not all Heroes wear capes.

5. Our Community, Our Connections

6. Member Leaders in Action

7. Goals Become Reality with Solidarity!

8. Strategic goals are achieved by specific tactics: ENGAGEMENT! ACTION! RESULTS!

9. Next Steps!

10. Strategic Goals Elected leadership and Member Action Team (MAT) have identified these goals and need your input!. What do you think of them? What else should we focus on? • Make part-timers whole for loss of medical stipend at year 5 • Develop a sustainable health care plan for the long-term • Increase member engagement - what does this look like to you? • Grow relationships &connections with other Locals, and especially City Council • Develop a council liaison to meet with us and hear our side of the issues.

11. Goal 1: Make Members Who Work Part-Time Whole • Estimate $18,000 needed to fill the new financial gap that will happen in Years 4 & 5 for part-time workers with family health coverage • Local 2975 negotiation team committed to filling this gap • Recommend vote to authorize this today! • Committee for addressing this issue forming now focusing on: • Developing alternatives to mitigate negative effects of medical stipend change for future years • Raising starting wages of lowest-paid workers (“$15/hour” campaign?) • Looking for 8 volunteers to be part of this committee

12. Goal 2: Increase member engagement, Part I Develop Union Engagement Model • Connect with new employees: New Employee Engagement Training w/ Council 75 • Connect with management on a regular basis to catch issues before they become problems • Example: Library stewards meet monthly with department director • Replicate model or create similar connection in all departments: • Community Development • Finance • Fire/Police • Human Resources • IT • Parks & Recreation • Public Works

13. Goal 2: Increase member engagement, Part II • Lots of options and support to get involved • Needs-Specific Training • Stewardship, Financial Standards, How to run a meeting, Anti-bias, How to talk to the press, Bargaining, etc. • Training available online or in-person on evenings and weekend • Council 75 - Executive board opportunities, help make real change at the State level for the workplace issues you care about. Get info and scheduling at www.oregonafscme.org

14. Stewards: Grassroots Power in Leadership Role • Stewards are: • Voting members of our local’s Executive Board • E-Board’s “ear to the ground” for workplace issues and source of info about E-Board actions for members in their workplace • Represent the union and support members in discussion/investigations with supervisors • Lots of support and training provided: online and in-person resources like LERC and online SMART Center, our local’s Chief Steward, Oregon AFSCME • Current Stewards: • Library: Denise Swearigin, RuthRose Hennessey, Kristy Kemper Hodge, Laura White • Parks & Recreation: Jon Pywell • Public Works: Shilo Amway, Tim Bates, Adam Womack • Additional Stewards needed for: • Parks & Recreation, Water Treatment, Wastewater Treatment, Development Review, Engineering, Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Police/Fire • New stewards can be elected at any time - volunteer or recommend a co-worker!!

15. Goal 2: Increase member engagement, Part III Form New Committees - Join Tonight! What interests you? • Comparative City Compensation Research Group • Healthcare Research Committee • Seasonal Event Committees - Coordinate member events • Social Media Contributors

16. Goal 3: Grow relationships and connections, Part I Outreach to Local Elected Officials and Allies • City Council • A Liaison or a group of members to interact with all council members throughout the contract and their tenure. A liaison sounds easier here. One we could meet with and update on our progress. • Gazette-Times • Use letters and op-ed pieces to keep our local’s issues front of mind for the Corvallis community so they can apply pressure to City Council when contract time comes • With the help of Oregon AFSCME’s Political Director and a member of our local, create a schedule of op eds/letters from membership and public. • Corvallis Allies • Other local unions: Benton County AFSCME, SEIU, Coalition of Graduate Employees, AFT-OSU • Community Groups (Spring Solidarity Fair) Form Levy PAC Liaisons & Canvassing Team

17. Goal 3: Grow relationships and connections, Part II Regional Connections • Albany, Philomath, Lebanon, Sweet Home AFSCME locals • Linn-Benton-Lincoln Labor Council: Meets quarterly; we’re entitled to 2 members • Mid-Willamette NOW: social justice and women’s march Statewide Connections • Council 75 PAC (Monthly, 3rd Friday, 6:30PM, Salem) • Council 75 Executive Board Meeting (Meets quarterly on a 3rd Saturday, Salem) • PERS • Healthcare for All Oregon (working for statewide universal healthcare)

18. May 2019 Local Option Levy: Save Library & Parks Positions • Why support this: Failure means loss of member jobs at Library and Parks & Recreation (Osborn Aquatic Center, Senior Center, and Majestic Theatre would close) • Parks - Termination of 379 employees this number includes casual staff • Library - Termination of 62 employees this number includes casual staff • Levy is up for renewal every 5 years. Volunteer to work for the levy’s passage! • PAC Representative: represent our local’s interests on the community committee supporting the levy • Literature and sign distribution • Neighborhood canvassing • Move money now to support the PAC. Last renewal cycle, Local 2975 was the biggest supporter of the PAC because Council 75 matched our donation.

19. Stay Informed - Connect Online! Subscribe to our website: afscme2975.org/ Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/afscme2975/

20. What’s Coming Up? “Hooked on a Feeling” Hello – I am reaching out to you on behalf of Mid-Willamette NOW. My name is Kim Callahan and I am the chapter’s Outreach and Advocacy Chair. We will be chartering school busses to the Salem Women’s March on January 19. It would be great to have Union folks out there (feel free to wear Union shirts, bring Union signs/banners, etc.) We’ll be meeting in Corvallis at 9am-ish and expect to be back no later than 4pm. Standard price tickets are $15 but we also have reduced price tickets of $8 for students and low-income folks. We have an option on the ticketing site for purchase of a ticket to donate, so we hope to also have a few free tickets available for those for whom $8 is a barrier to attending. If you know any members who might be interested you can direct them to: BrownPaperTickets https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3914441 Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/272630940110635/ We’ll also be having a sign-making party at our January 15 chapter meeting at 7:15pm at the First Alternative Co-Op South Community Room. Any questions you can contact me or midwillamettenow@gmail.com Mid-Willamette NOW also has a mailing list. We send out an email every Monday with information about chapter events, other chapter updates, and a list of area social justice-y events in the area that week. In Solidarity, Kim Callahan