UNION ENDORSEMENTS - ONLINE VOTING & SKIN IN THE GAME

Union endorsement processes should be online voting. They should be open to all members who are contributing financially and who will commit at least 2 hours of work to each candidate or issue they vote to endorse.

Given that the processes of primary and general elections have hard legal deadlines for filing as candidates and for the dates of the elections, there is no legitimate reason that endorsement processes aren't detailed on the web at least 3 months before legal filing deadlines.

Given this tool called the internet, why are union processes stuck in the 30's and 50's? In the 30's, and before, millions of us lived close to where we worked. IF leaders wanted membership at meetings, they could hold the meetings miles from the work site. For a few decades after WWII, even though sub-urbanization was exploding, there were millions of family wage jobs. Family wage jobs mean it is easier to participate in non work activities, and, those days are gone. We can change, or, we can continue to shrink.

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MEETINGS, AGENDAS, ABBREVIATED ROBERT'S RULES - ONLINE AND OPEN
We working stiffs need a different structure to meetings, agendas, proposals (new business items) and Robert's Rules. Structures and processes from legislative bodies who are paid and who work full time at legislating don't work for people who participate on a part time basis.

http://organizingteacherswa.blogspot.com/2014/06/meetings-agendas-abbreviated-roberts.html

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UNIONS MUST DO ORGANIZING ONLINE
Campaign volunteers need to be able to self-organize on the web because it is too hard to participate. It is too hard to participate because campaign volunteers spend too much time searching for the details to the questions of WHAT, WHERE, WHO, WHEN, HOW when volunteers want to help a campaign.  Volunteers should just be able to go to 1 or 2 connected websites to get calendar information and to get the following details for whatever they're going to do:

http://organizingteacherswa.blogspot.com/2013/08/unions-must-do-organizing-online.html

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ORGANIZING WORKING EDUCATOR COMMUNITIES
1. BY LOCATION, 2. BY ACTIVITY, 3. BY CANDIDATE / ISSUE

IF we the little working people are going to have sustainable influence on the decisions juggling the trade offs which are made in our communities, we need to organize ourselves differently.

http://organizingteacherswa.blogspot.com/2014/06/organizing-working-educator-communities.html

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4-3-2 IS NEEDED FROM YOU.
IF our unions are going to matter to the decision makers, the decision makers are going to have to be scared of us. When they're scared of us, they'll work with us. When they work us, they'll stop pulling the kind of garbage they've pulled on Washington State educators over the last 5+ years: denial of citizen approved cost of living raises, denial of citizen approved smaller classes sizes, a multi billion dollar Boeing give away in the fall of 2013 in an emergency 3 day session.

They'll be scared of us when 4 times a year, during 1 of the 3 important political seasons of the year, each of us does something political for at least 2 hours.

http://organizingteacherswa.blogspot.com/2014/08/4-3-2-is-needed-from-you.html