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COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES FORM

 

Committee: Women’s

 

Date/Time:  05/15/08 1-2p

 

In Attendance:

Chair:  Amber Holland

Present

 

 

 

 

 

 

Members:

Naiela Long

Jason Michelinie

 

 

Tommy Streets

Jennifer Fahr

 

 

Donna Carter

Kathy Barker

 

 

Terry Mitchell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Topics/Issues/Activities Discussed.  Number each.

 

1. Minutes from 4/17/08 approved by T. Streets, 2nd by K. Barker

2. WSLC Convention July 9-13’08 Victoria BC, waiting for info on scholarships

3. National Women’s conference will be in Washington DC in 2009.

4. April 22 was Equal Pay Day; wear RED – Thank you to Sharon Goff for making the flyers.

5. Union Leaders of the Future scholarship deadline is 5/30/08. There is a link for the application on our local website.

6. ABTP formerly BETA 25th Anniversary celebration was 4/25-4/26 was a great event, pictures will come soon.

7. Still working on other locals in our district to partner up with. Need volunteers to help with this project.

8. Our committee was discussed by Susie McAllister at the District 7 conference in UT. Way to go!

9. Partner up with Qwest women on events/activates; since CWA is part of the joint resource groups. Qwest for the Cure; can join under our very own Terry Mitchell.

10. Partner up with Equity Committee for a car wash in July/Aug proceeds to go to the Pediatric Aids foundation; PRIDE parade Jun 29th, Equity needs candy for this.

11. Need someone to work on domestic hotlines that we can volunteer at.

 

Roundtable

 

12. Naiela talked about the local look into getting a time share for our travels to help on cost.

13. Committee fair to see about having one soon.

14. Naiela talked about a fundraiser to have a hotdog sale in the CFS to raise money for the Pediatric Aids foundation

15. There were surveys done at the district 7 conference by the Equity/Women’s district committees; the results not in yet.

16. Maybe have a meet and greet with other locals in Washington, to get other women’s committees going in their locals.

17. Jennifer advised an Inter-culture Women’s conference sat. 5/17. Jennifer will try to go to it.

18. Jennifer volunteered to chair the Jun meeting while Amber is at the minority conference and convention.

19. Jason will see if he can get information on the domestic violence hotline.

20. Terry talked about mobilization stating, Malachy had talked about the red flyers saying union member on it, or blank purple paper we can’t do those.

21. Kathy needs members to join the mobilization committee or even to help volunteer to hand out flyers on Thursdays.

22. Jennifer stated that other members have talked to her about wanting their voices to be heard, and that they want more information from the local. Advised that these members can come to membership meetings, committee meetings, or even send correspondence to the local to be heard at these meetings.

 

 

Date of Next Meeting: 6/19/08 1-2p rm 1403a

 

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