When: Thursday, March 12 at 4:30 pm
Where: Glen Park Library, 2825 Diamond Street
Check with your co-workers and come prepared to schedule an April site visit to your school.
Check out our platform as voted on at our last EDU meeting:
OUR VISION
1. MEMBER EMPOWERMENT AND PARTICIPATION
• Encourage democratic debate and discussion at UESF meetings
• Continue to fight for better wages and working conditions for paras
• All UESF members can vote at assembly meetings, not just UBC members
• Ensure an independent parliamentarian – not UESF president – presides
• Elect the Bargaining Team (not appoint)
• Elect – not appoint – members to lead Para, SPED, Elem, Middle, HS
2. TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY
• Transparency in Bargaining: Prioritize on-going communication to and
from members during bargaining
• Post or send agendas and minutes to all UESF meetings in a timely manner
• Ensure budget transparency and accountability for UESF staff and officers
3. RACIAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
• Actively participate in coalitions for housing and immigration rights, the
struggle against police violence and other social justice movements
• Advocate for legal separation between schools and law enforcement
• Carry out work actions or strikes over school closures or relocations
• Report regularly to members on SF Labor Council meetings and activity
4. RESISTANCE TO CORPORATE ATTACKS
• Oppose outsourcing to non-union workers and consultants in SFUSD
• Mobilize members to support schools that refuse to test
• Work for progressive taxation