Love that, Michelle! This Is Marilyn Sneiderman from Center for Innovation in Worker Organization —BCG partner….so excited for this!!

Welcome everyone!! We’re going to get started in a few minuets :)

Hello from Leicester, England

Stephen Magro SEIU 1199 NE Middletown CT

Ash, AFGE, Philadelphia

hello from Kansas City!!

Aaron Giesa from Portland OR, SEIU 503.

Sarah Saheb, SEIU, Chicago

Cory Budden, AFT2026, Philadelphia

Hi, this is Dana Smith from United Campus Workers in Nashville, TN

Deother Cook SEIU HCIIMK, Indiana

JACK HANSON from MASH in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

evan, CUPE503 Ottawa

Amber Cano-Martin, SEIU International, Amherst, MA- better funding for public schools

Tom Israel, NEA Center for Organizing. Once bargained for the right to import prescription drugs from Canada.

Christina Livingston, ACCE in CA

Gerard Ramm - Berkeley, CA UAW 2865.

Chris Seymour, SEIU, Brooklyn, NY - Researcher

Valery - Canterbury UK, Unison,

Elizabeth Gemeroy (She/Her) Portland Oregon, Oregon Nurses Association

Carol Meyers, Bronx, NY SEIU criminal justice reform

Hi! Evelyn from Chicago here, SEIU HCIIMK

Steve, NYSUT, New York

Lydia Wood, Western Mass Area Labor Federation, Taxing the Rich!

Melissa Powell Buffalo NY CWA1168

Gavin he/him western ct dsa/sra demanding healthcare for all

Amanda Kail, MNEA, Nashville

Jerry Hellman SEIU IU, Chicago,

Michelle Healy, SEIU DC

MAX LOVE also from Milwaukee (Hi Jack!)

Hello!! Matt House from Puyallup, WA. Teamsters Local 117 Seattle.

Dean Staffieri, MSEA-SEIU Local 1989, Naples, Maine

Alex Peimer, Northeastern Illinois University, UPI 4100, Chicago IL

AFSCME Florida!

Paul Price, Laborers Union, Chicago, IL.

Jesse rabinowitz, Miriam’s Kitchen, DC, fighting for housing to end homelessness

Nick Wertsch, Workers Defense Project, Houston, TX, workers’ rights monitoring on future construction projects

Nancy from Fairfield Ct

Joe Barnes, SEIU Campaign Coordinator

Sarah Shaw in Philadelphia, with AFSCME DC47

Byron, Community Change, Chicago

Matthew Kurtz, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Canada

Mason (he/him), Philly, AFSCME UNITY- not won, but would love to see a commitment to affordable housing funding in our contract

John peavy, Seiu 888 Massachusetts

Amisha Patel, Grassroots Collaborative, IL

Jim Schmitz, in the DMV, UAW organizing

Aidan Geronimus, Los Angeles, Jobs to Move America

Jonathan Rosenblum, 1199NE alum, coming in from Seattle, WA

Sara Katz, SEIU Virginia 512, Fairfax County, VA — Hi everyone!

Louise

Matt Ides, OEA Columbus

Misha Hernandez from ONA Oregon

Laurie Couch, SEIU, Chicago

Paul Filson CSU-AAUP Connecticut

Isaac Ontiveros, NNU, zooming in from Oakland, CA

Win Heimer, CT Alliance for Retired Americans, West Hartford, Connecticut

Hi! Lila Foldes, staff for Committee of Interns of Residents. Brooklyn, NY. Bargained for patient health care.

Arielle Klagsbrun, Philly, ACRE/Philly Revenue Project

Bob He/him LEO Ann Arbor, MI 1U demand for central administration financial support for Flint & Dearborn

Aliya Sabharwal, Americans for Financial Reform, based in Providence, RI

Jeff Korgen, Catholic Campaign for Human Development

Hi All, Edgar Beltran, Partnership for Working Families, Los Angeles

Tom Connolly CSEA/SEIU 2001

Maggie Laslo SEIU Healthcare Chicago Childcare parent subsidies

Candace Lilyquist, NEA, Organizational Specialist, NE Region of NEA

Tiffany in southeastern PA working for PSEA (educator's union)

Abbie Illenberger, Grassroots Collaborative (IL)

Tom Zablocki, SEIU IU, Chicago

Hi I’m Bob Reutenauer organizer, Connecticut 4Cs/SEIU #1973.

Jameele Afscme Philly

Luz Ramos, New Haven, CT Bargained for Juvenile Justice, fair housing.

Hey y’all, MCK from Stand Up Nashville! Great to be here & learn more about the amazing work happening in CT!

AFSCME DC47 Philly

Spencer Shimek (he/him); Habersham County, GA; I am not part of an organization, but currently work as a remote tutor

Sandy Craig, SEIU HCIIMK in Chicago

Patricia Munoz from CIWO, New Jersey!

louise simmons UConn AAUP

Paul Gottlieb, Suburban Philly

Hello comrades! Rev. Francisco Garcia, Wendland-Cook Program in Religion & Justice, Vanderbilt Divinity School, former SEIU organizer and contract campaign negotiator coordinator, BCG Advisory Committee

Greg, Philly, AFSCME DC47, Unity caucus, working on Tax the Rich, Defund the Police, Fund Communities common good demands in our upcoming contract negotiations

Alli Carlisle, UAW 2865 San Diego

Dan Cohn, Western Organization of Resource Councils, Billings Montana

Claudia Shacter-deChabert, PCS in NYC look at the New Deal for CUNY

Katharine Landfield, Washington DC, Fair Budget Coalition and Jews United for Justice

PSC not PCS

Stan Shapiro - Philly Neighborhood Networks - Reinstate Philly’s Personal Property Tax

Solidarity from the Nashville Central Labor Council of Nashville/Middle TN Vonda McDaniel

joe zawawi, CT Education Association, Hartford

Peter Brogan, staff for the Portland Association of Teachers (Oregon)

Sam Nelson, Jobs With Justice (and Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild), Washington DC

Mary Jo Connelly, PSU/MTA UMass Boston.

Alisha Chavez, Portland Association of Teachers

Nancy Matthews, UPI 4100 (higher ed union) Northeastern Illinois University

Heyyyy good people!! Aisha Blanchard-Young, organizer, California Teachers Assoc.

Matt Cronin National Rep, CUPE, Ontario Education Workers

Meizhu Lui, Mexico Solidarity Project

Herman S. Whitter of Connecticut Education Association

Erin Sroka, communications, SEIU6, property services union, Seattle

Kate Goodman, AFSCME DC 47 rank and file in Philadelphia (Free Library)

Any chance we can get the slides after? Thanks!

Thank you! Very exciting!

No $ for workers, I bet he got a raise

this reminds me a little of the Moral Monday’s campaign

Great work! ♥️ these demands. I am a teacher now but I was a Mental Health Delegate for two years in Mercer County, Pa.

we will have 15 minutes for Q&A, start thinking about the questions you have!

LOL did anyone type those and if so can you paste them I the chat?

Check out the list of demands here ^^

Thanks KB!

The three questions...Hope i captured them right. How does the demand close gaps in services? How do the demands advance racial equity? How do the demands build or strengthen our community and allies? (Or words to that effect...lol)

Panel Question: Gemeem, what was conversation with police union like?

That's right Aisha. 1) how does this demand address a gap in services?; 2) how does this demand advance racial justice?; 3) how does this demand grow the power of our Union and Community Allies?

So all this work is/was being done in conjunction with the state's budgeting process??

yes! we’ll address that in a minute

it sounds like some of the members that the unions involved represent are corrections officers. how do they feel about the defund/prison abolition demands? have you been able to bring them in?

What did member education and engagement look like to build commitment to a very different way to approach bargaining?

I would love to hear more about the work to get agreement and alignment on revenue and defunding - this has been challenging work. specifically, were there tensions within 1199 to get to alignment?

How are you/did you do outreach and organizing to bring high-income, high-wealth ppl into the work, if at all? Esp interested in that experience for our tax campaign

we do not represent Corrections Officers. We have the healthcare workers in Department of Corrections

+1 to Lila

@Rob thanks

For Becky, How are the union members responding to B4CG demands? What have been the challenges, if any?

Does it make sense to apply the BCG model to private-sector employers that perform public goods? (hospitals, nursing homes, grocery stores, universities, etc.)

Katherine- don't think we have any high wealth folks involved, though it would help if we can identify wealth individuals that support progressive taxation

Do you feel like there was a major turning point in getting member buy-in and/or building the coalition for this campaign? If so, when/what was it?

@Rob Patriotic Millionaires represents wealthy folks who support progressive taxation

In Philly, the Budget Office is already trying to present the expiring contracts as a cost that could affect how the City delivers services. So they are pitting workers against the services they provide instead of the workers who provide services against the rich who don't pay their taxes and the police state that protects their property. Was there anything like that coming out of management at the state or municipal level?

I work for the National Education Union in UK, though lived in US in 90s and was an active member of IBEW / IATSE. This has been truly inspirational to hear from brothers and sisters on this meeting, so thank you very much to all and really want to keep in touch to learn from you and share experiences

How has this approach to bargaining increased organizational capacity and power for community groups? More members? Ability to build out other priority issue campaigns Increase in foundation money, donors etc.

Do you have a tax justice organization in CT as many other states do?

Following on Jeff Korgen's question about the conversation with the police union, can you say a little about how you approached that conversation? Seems like there would be difficult issues of union solidarity (police included) in the context of many of the aims of the Common Good Campaign.

Years ago, United for a Fair Economy did a fun action when trying to stop the reduction of the estate tax that could be part of a demo - people dressed up like the super rich, top hats, boas, jewels, handing out suckers, lollipops to passers-by. “Thank you suckers! We got richer, you got a sucker.”

Are these SEIU-1199 policy proposals or BCG policy proposals? Or both?

Can this document be shared?

And please, can we get this one pager? It is awesome!

Both I think

Yes!

Who controls CT's general assembly?

While the EITC is helpful to low-income workers, it is actually a subsidy to the companies who pay below living wages. If they paid adequate wages - think McDonald’s or Walmart - people would not need the EITC. It’s US - the taxpayers - making up for what the companies should be doing!

^^

bargainingforthecommongood.org

YES!

@Rob = amazing

++++ Rob

Thank you so much!!!!

Amen!

YES!! And thank you

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amazing!!

Thank you!

Thank you!

This was great!!

Fantastic work!!!

Thank you

Thank you!

Excellent!!!

Thanks so much !!!!!!

One Love, Comrades

Thank you so much!! This was so inspiring and helpful!!!

thanks!

Thank you all so much for the incredible program!!

AMEN!!!! Great Job!!!

Very excited and inspired

Thx great program!!!

Thank you for inspiring and instructing us panel. I'm fired up and ready to go.

Amazing work everyone!!!

Thank you!

inspiring!

Thank you everyone!!! So inspiring. Love 1199 NE!!!

Thanks!

Thank you!

great work

Very comprehensive and a great model. Thanks!

Thanks so much!

Great work!

Looking forward to powerpoint and other materials!

this was excellent! thank you!

This was excellent, thank you so much!

Thank you!

Hell Yes!!!

Thank you!!

Thanks so much for organizing this!!

thank you!

so inspiring, thank you!

solidarity forever

Excellent!!