UALE EBoard Meeting May 11, 2016
Attendees: Cheryl Teare, Marilyn Sneiderman, Amanda Pacheco, Debra Kidney, Mary Bellman, Barb Kucera, Keturah Raabe, Bill Shields, Sarah Laslett, Julie Mendez-DeLeon, Cheryl Coney, Domenic Bellisimo
President’s Report …………………………………………………… Cheryl Teare
- Phone meetings are how the board conducts business
- Handbooks are being prepared and goal is to send before the next meeting
- Full audit of books was done and they are in good shape – accurate accounting
- Southern Regional Report was held until the June Meeting
Review of Minutes from last meeting ………………………………Amanda Pacheco
- Pre-Conference Minutes - Approved
- Post-Conference Minutes - Approved
- Request was made to provide contact and organization information to complete new board info
Correspondence ……………………………………………………… Cheryl Teare
- Marilyn received an email regarding mentoring/leadership development for young women and wanted to know if UALE may want to consider a working group on this issue
- UALE was asked by women summer school coordinators to consider our role in recruitment for the schools. The following issues were raised:
- Whether or not the coordinators can connect with the institutional members to recruit
- Whether or not the board reaches out to institutional members to help garner support
- Whether or not more could be done to reach out to unions/institutions
- Whether or not regional reps should do outreach to have unions send participants
- How to work together to make sure that the recruitment gets done for all of the schools
- Mailings that ask unions/state and local federations to post school info on their websites would be helpful
- It was noted that the role of the board has always been to talk up women’s schools wherever possible, and any coordination/outreach is done by the hosting co-chairs
- The comment was made that schools don’t have trouble recruiting participants
- To connect the schools and UALE, Cheryl might want to consider recording a short video to welcome women and make the connection that this is a UALE program
- Recommendations:
- Letter to unions, state feds, clcs inviting folks to the summer school and asking them to post summer school flyer on the union webpage
- Regional Reps – get a letter out to CLCs – work with Al and coordinate with hosts
- Welcome video from Cheryl
- Community Liaison should reach out to community groups that received grants – Guillermo has a record of who has been given grants and will share with Jeannette – worker center advisory center next week at the AFL – Marilyn happy to mail out also to her contact list
- Amanda needs a copy of the letter
Treasurers Report ……………………………………………………..Debra Kidney
- Clean audit
- No report at this time
- Have the computer and work at home and ready to go
- CVCRM Tool – Subject matter expert – University
- Outreach to afscme – chief financial person – willing to do bookkeeping
- New PO Box
- Recognition of hard work given to Linda, Cheryl and AFT for having finances in such good shape
Membership …………………………………………………………. Amanda Pacheco
- Cheryl Coney is on the new membership committee
University VP …………………………………………………………. Marilyn Sneiderman
- The conference debrief was useful and will be used to help plan next year’s conference.
Union VP ………………………………………………………………..Al Davidoff
- No Report
Regional Representatives: Updates or sharing of information
Western ...………………………………………………………………Bill Shields
- Bay Area – hosting a regional mini-conference. Working with UCLA Labor Center. Trying
to recruit women to the event and educate them about the women’s school
- Pushing a UALE Regional Conference – July 8-9 attendance from unions, workers’ centers
- Doing a great deal of recruitment
- Great agenda with a cultural program
Southern ……………………………………………………. Keturah Raabe
- Will move report to next month
Midwest ……………………………………….………………Barbara Kucera
- Preparing for Midwest School at Indiana university – new Albany Campus
- Unable to find what states are in what regions on the UALE website
- Midwest has a tradition of having a fall gathering – planning on that again –usually takes place in Iowa City
- Will be doing an e-newsletter – will provide to all board members. Let Barbara know in advance if you don’t want to get it
- The suggestion was made to “copy” what Keturah is doing for the southern region – it’s lively and getting good input
- Regions – The four UALE regions corresponded with afl-cio structure at one time – this was changed, because we no longer wanted them to correspond with the afl-cio structure
East …………………………………………………………. Mary Bellman
- Will look to use Keturah’s ideas to do outreach
- Folks in this region want to know more about what people are doing
- Want to create a listserv – Debra will have the list
- Rutgers is hosting the NE school – UALE has been a source of support that the women caucus chairs hosted a meeting to discuss how we do this work – Kate Shaunessy did a good job with this – this helps identify the summer schools as a UALE program
Old Business
- None
New Business
- Letter came from Sarah Hughes at the Murphy Institute asking to start a roundtable group to address mentoring women. Need to have a small group work on this and come back to this board with ideas. Sarah, Cheryl, Marilyn,
- This will need to be a UALE Working Group Proposal that is presented at the November Meeting – board has to approve a new working group
- Regarding reaching out to young workers, the question was asked if there is someone in UALE who would want to start a Working group on apprenticeship
- This can/should be explored – Cheryl sent info to Sarah Laslett
- Domenic – Member at Large – Wrote a report to his union about UALE conference, and they voted to become institutional members will be doing an article on the state of labor education in their fall newsletter
- The question arose as to whether or not the board needs to take a look at all of the duties/responsibilities and look at whether or not duties/responsibilities should be redistributed
- A discussion on duties/responsibilities will take place at the November, in-person meeting
- Questions for the Nov. meeting include where it will be hosted and if there will be a curriculum exchange
Good of the Order
- Standing date and time for UALE Board Meeting is – 2nd Thursday of the Month – 1 pm Pacific/4 pm Eastern
- It would be helpful to set up a recurring Outlook invite for meeting
- The following was noted for November’s meeting planning:
- Cannot be weekends of Nov. 4th or 11th
- Exchange could be 16th – Directors Meeting the 17th – Board Meeting Nov. 18-19th
- Julie agreed to chair online working group – still looking for someone to co-chair from university side
(Motion to adjourn)
Adjourned
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