Minutes: UALE Annual Membership Meeting;
March 28, 2014 Los Angeles, CA

Upcoming Key dates

• Annual Directors’ meeting: Nov 13, 2014
• Executive Board Meeting : Nov 14-15, 2014
• Next annual Conference: March 25—28, 2015
  • Orlando FL at Doubletree by Universal Studios
    
    

Secretary's Report

• Minutes reviewed from 2013 conference(distributed via Listserve); passed
• Reminder that all membership and Eboard minutes are available for review on the UALE website
  
  

President's Report

Berger Marks Foundation

• Berger Marks and UALE partnership to support women’s summer schools
• Cheryl Coney hired as project coordinator for the women’s summer schools
• Berger Marks is providing $49,000 in funding support plus $6,000 for each summer school

UALE Research grants:

• More applications this year
• Two awards:
  • FIU action research on taxi drivers
  • Denise Wagner on African American Steelworkers in Chicago.
• Next grant opportunity published in Sept and October when RFPs go out.
• Winners should routinely plan to present at next year’s conference

UALE Strategic Plan

• Convened with facilitator at November Executive Board meeting
• New Executive Board will follow up on results

Membership

• Institutional membership has increased with broader inclusiveness of Canadians and other countries and working groups.
• All UALE members should attempt to build on membership
  
  

Treasurer’s Report

2013 Budget (distributed)

• Last year’s conference was expensive but additional fund raising helped defer costs
• Small budget deficit of $3000

2014/Proposed 2015 Budget (distributed)

Minutes amended 6/10/14 to reflect proper budget years, K.Conlan

• Numbers allotted to categories similar to 2014
• Conference will likely be in the black
• $190,000 as of March 21 in the bank
  • Numbers will change with deposits from this year’s conference
• LSJ and New Labor Forum subscriptions are pass through items

New Treasurer needs to work on improving the web site registration process for conference

Bank fraud notice resulted in closing account in FL and setting up new account at Amalgamated Bank in DC

Membership trends (download below)

• Increasing
• Institutional memberships important to help offset support for community groups
• Current individual membership numbers don’t reflect additions picked up at conference

Treasurer’s report is passed

Download Budget and Membership trends here: document Treasurers Report (208 KB) document

Elections:

Run by Emily Twarog assisted by elections committee membership

Process:

• Candidate statements per position circulated for those nominated in advance
• Incumbents noted*; errata that Darryl! Moch is an incumbent At Large Member
• For each position, nominations will be accepted from the floor
• Candidates will give a brief statement as to why he/she is running
• Regional Rep positions are handled among regional membership
  • Explained most recent EBoard reconfiguration of states within the regions
  • AFL-CIO Southern and Western Regional states are combined as the UALE Western Region
  • WV, MD and DC are moved from the UALE Northeaster Region to the Southern Region

President: Cheryl Teare elected by acclimation

Vice President, Universities: Tony Michael elected by acclimation

Vice President, Unions: Al Davidoff elected by acclimation

Treasurer: Lynda DeLoach elected by acclimation

Secretary: Kitty Conlan elected by acclimation

University Representative: Sarah Laslett elected by acclimation

Union Representative: Guillermo Perez elected by acclimation

Community Representative: Jennette Huezo elected by acclimation

Northeastern Region Representative: KC Wagner elected by acclimation

Midwest Region Representative: Paul Iverson elected by acclimation

Western Regional Representative: Bill Shields elected (2 candidates)

Southern Region Representative: Keturah Raabe elected (3 candidates)

At Large Positions: Darryl! Moch, Amanda Pacheco and Pierre Cote elected (6 candidates)

 

LSJ report:

• Editorial Board will be meeting later
• Special issues planned around RTW coming up
• Solicitation for articles particularly among new members
  
  

Working Group Reports

Immigration and Globalization Working group

• Appreciate content of the conference centered on the global workplace
  
  

Worker Writers Working Group

• Copy-write and debates with publishers centered around the impact of technology and dissemination of articles/journals etc.
  
  

CLC State Fed Working Group

• Working on a research report on how labor education can support CLCs
• Will survey the members of the state fed and clcs
• 6 labor education centers involved,
• Need some people to help interview labor leaders in their area
  
  

Popular Education Working Group will meet later

K-14 Working Group

• No meeting this year
• Appreciate having public education and labor education imbedded within the conference program

Online Working Group will be meeting online

Caucus Reports

Women’s Caucus

• 2013 women’s summer schools attended by more than 500 women
• Thanks the school hosts University of Arkansas, Cornell and University of WA/Seattle
• Berger Marks support for this year’s programs
• “Afterschool “program being proposed online to supplement the summer school momentum
• 2014 hosts: Queens College, Victoria BC; University of IL, and Highlander School in TN
• Need to get support for hosting schools throughout, including those programs run by male members

 
People of Color Caucus will meet after the membership meeting

New Business

• 2016 conference, looking for Washington DC site
• 2017 conference looking for a host city in the MW
  
  

Committee volunteers

Communications Committee

• Newly established to promote UALE internally and externally
• Focus on social media
• Need a new website monitor, Ewing will help
• Some funding to help support, job description circulating

Members

Don Taylor (chair)

Debra Kidney

Elise Bryant

Tess Ewing

Helena Worthen

Joe Varga

Conference planning (University VP Oversees)

Daniel Gilbert

Judith Bernier

Helen Moss

Guy Bosworth

Ali Bustamante

Gene Carroll

Constitution and Governance Committee (new)

Guillermo Perez

Lori Province

Pierre Cote

Kitty Conlan

Emily Twarog

Membership

Joe Berry

Paris Walker

Additional volunteers will be solicited from the UALE Listserve

Good and Welfare

• Status of the union education in jeopardy
• Northern CA and Western Region cohosted regional meeting that provides an alternative means of members to convene and can be used to promote annual conference attendance.  
• Portland is hosting LERA conference May 29-June 1
• Workers Independent News labor news radio broadcast deemed “not news” by FCC. May seek support from the Eboard for assistance to refute.
• New board should consider as the worker demographics change, outreach to groups of workers “left out” of traditional employment arrangements. (Independent contractors, adjuncts, etc.) United Workers Congress formed to address their needs.
• UCLA Labor Center celebrating 50th anniversary this year; seeking ad support
• Body recognizes outgoing President Elissa McBride for extraordinary job
• Incoming President Cheryl Teare acknowledges large transition in board composition; new board will convene in the am.

Meeting Adjourne