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3	4 Steward Council Meeting Steward Council Meeting February 4, 2020 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA Bi-weekly meeting of the Steward Council, all members are welcome to attend! Agenda to be posted soon. See more details •	5 Power Mapping Workshop Power Mapping Workshop February 5, 2020 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA Will be recorded for folks unable to attend. Power mapping is a tool for improving our organizing strategies and plans of action surrounding bargaining. Power mapping is useful for understanding where current power exists and helps locate opponents and allies for specific causes by identifying areas for intervention on the issue you are working toward changing. Our workshop is intended to improve our union's organizing strategies moving toward bargaining, and these will be skills you can use toward any organizing goals you may have in the future. See more details Power Mapping Workshop Power Mapping Workshop February 5, 2020 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA Will be recorded for folks unable to attend. Power mapping is a tool for improving our organizing strategies and plans of action surrounding bargaining. Power mapping is useful for understanding where current power exists and helps locate opponents and allies for specific causes by identifying areas for intervention on the issue you are working toward changing. Our workshop is intended to improve our union's organizing strategies moving toward bargaining, and these will be skills you can use toward any organizing goals you may have in the future. See more details • •	6 Strategic Planning Workshop Strategic Planning Workshop February 6, 2020 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA Covers the basics of strategic planning and includes a worksheet you can print out to do your own strategic plan based on an issue that's important to you. Examples of tactics: A rally, march, or sit-in. A picnic to bring lots of different people together. A petition. A joint letter to administration. A parody song that is blasted on social media. Leafletting. House visits. Office visits. A panel discussion. A weekly blog. A weekly hashtag social media blast. Developing a website. Recruiting testimonies for negotiations. March on the boss. Strikes. Mass sick-ins where everyone calls out of work on the same day. So many tactics- and ones that you will dream up that no one else has yet! See more details Strategic Planning Workshop Strategic Planning Workshop February 6, 2020 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA Covers the basics of strategic planning and includes a worksheet you can print out to do your own strategic plan based on an issue that's important to you. Examples of tactics: A rally, march, or sit-in. A picnic to bring lots of different people together. A petition. A joint letter to administration. A parody song that is blasted on social media. Leafletting. House visits. Office visits. A panel discussion. A weekly blog. A weekly hashtag social media blast. Developing a website. Recruiting testimonies for negotiations. March on the boss. Strikes. Mass sick-ins where everyone calls out of work on the same day. So many tactics- and ones that you will dream up that no one else has yet! See more details • •	7 Grievances 101 Workshop Grievances 101 Workshop February 7, 2020 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA Description:This workshop will train members and stewards on the basics of grievances. The first step is knowing what's in our contract (aka Collective Bargaining Agreement). This workshop will cover those areas and how to talk to fellow grads about their work circumstances to determine whether they are experiencing a grievance or not, then knowing what the next steps are for moving toward resolution. Open to all members. Stewards encouraged to attend. See more details Grievances 101 Workshop Grievances 101 Workshop February 7, 2020 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA See more details • •	8 How To Form A Union 101 How To Form A Union 101 February 8, 2020 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA Learn the basics of union organizing, particularly helpful for folks wanting to form a new union in their workplace or community! Food provided. See more details •	9 How To Form A Union 101 How To Form A Union 101 February 9, 2020 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA Learn the basics of union organizing, particularly helpful for folks wanting to form a new union in their workplace or community! Food provided. See more details •
10 Effective Union Conversations Workshop Effective Union Conversations Workshop February 10, 2020 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA This workshop/training is all about how to have effective conversation about our union and workplace issues. Regular one-on-one conversations with other GEs are ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to building membership, strengthening peoples' involvement in and commitment to CGE, and building the kind of solidarity that we need to thrive as a union. This can be scary or intimidating--but with a little training and practice, you will not only get good at it, you'll realize that it is both fun and rewarding to have real work conversations with people. See more details Effective Union Conversations Workshop Effective Union Conversations Workshop February 10, 2020 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA This workshop/training is all about how to have effective conversation about our union and workplace issues. Regular one-on-one conversations with other GEs are ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to building membership, strengthening peoples' involvement in and commitment to CGE, and building the kind of solidarity that we need to thrive as a union. This can be scary or intimidating--but with a little training and practice, you will not only get good at it, you'll realize that it is both fun and rewarding to have real work conversations with people. See more details • •	11 Community Accountability for Facilitators Community Accountability for Facilitators February 11, 2020 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA CW: These workshops will discuss matters of harassment, discrimination, and violence. All participants will be expected to RSVP in advance and commit to attending all sessions. RSVP HERE: https://forms.gle/W8DLx3fhwTCy7Z8Y6 CGE's Anti-Harassment Caucus is holding a series of workshops based on the resources contained within Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan. https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html These are opportunities to gain skills as facilitators of community accountability processes toward addressing and resolving harm. Our union hopes to use the experiences gained in these workshops toward applying them in instances of harassment and discrimination that regularly occur at OSU, both on the level of supervisors against employees and peer to peer instances. For participants the hope is that these workshops will allow you to take the practical lessons learned and apply them in your lives outside of CGE as well, such as in your other organizations, groups, peer networks, or relationships. The workshops will align with the areas of focus within Fumbling Towards Repair: Jan. 28 Area 1 Key Frameworks That Inform This Work (1-40) Feb. 11 Area 2 Food For Thought Facilitating (41-102) Feb. 25 Area 2 continued (103-120) Mar. 10 Area 3 Useful Activities To Try (121-155) Each session will include discussion and exercises from the workbook. For these sessions to be intentional and impactful, participants will need to read the documents in advance and RSVP for the dates. We ask as much as it is possible that you commit to attending each session. Participants that RSVP will be emailed copies of the reading materials. Sessions will include breaks and we'll have coffee and snacks. A brief preview of the frameworks that inform these workshops. According to the authors, Community Accountability Processes are informed by the following seven frameworks: 1) Ending sexual violence, 2) Trauma-informed practice, 3) Harm Reduction, 4) Healing Justice, 5) Prison Industrial Complex Abolition, 6) Transformative Justice, 7) Community Accountability. See more details •	12 Bargaining Session Bargaining Session February 12, 2020 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA See more details •	13 Executive Council Meeting Executive Council Meeting February 13, 2020 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA Bi-weekly meeting of the Executive Council. All members are welcome to attend. Agenda posted soon. See more details •	14 DAMunited Meet and Greet DAMunited Meet and Greet February 14, 2020 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA We're Isabel & Metzin and we're running for ASOSU president and vice-president. Community advocacy is at the heart of our campaign and we want to fight alongside you with the issues that matter the most to you. Drop by WestM on Valentine's Day from 12pm-2pm to meet and share your concerns with us. We'll have candy! Voting opens Feb. 17th-Feb.21st https://asosu.oregonstate.edu/elections If you have any questions about accesibility or need accomodations please DM or email us at dam.united@gmail.com See more details •	15	16
17	18 CGE Budget Meeting CGE Budget Meeting February 18, 2020 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Join CGE Treasurer and Operations Support staff for a budget review meeting. See more details Steward Council Meeting Steward Council Meeting February 18, 2020 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA Bi-weekly meeting of the Steward Council, all members are welcome to attend! Agenda to be posted soon. See more details • •	19 Corvallis Housing Advisory Board Meeting Corvallis Housing Advisory Board Meeting February 19, 2020 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Madison Avenue Meeting Room, SW 5th St, Corvallis, OR 97333, USA The Corvallis Housing and Community Development Advisory Board (HCDAB) formulates and recommends policies on housing and community revitalization issues, with an emphasis on older, declining, or lower income neighborhoods. HCDAB also recommends policies to provide for and conserve low and moderate-income housing in the City. See more details •	20	21 CGE Mental Health Caucus CGE Mental Health Caucus February 21, 2020 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Event: CGE Mental Health Caucus Contact: Cedric Hagen Phone: 503-332-7208 Email: hagence@oregonstate.edu See more details •	22	23
24	25 Community Accountability for Facilitators Community Accountability for Facilitators February 25, 2020 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA CW: These workshops will discuss matters of harassment, discrimination, and violence. All participants will be expected to RSVP in advance and commit to attending all sessions. RSVP HERE: https://forms.gle/W8DLx3fhwTCy7Z8Y6 CGE's Anti-Harassment Caucus is holding a series of workshops based on the resources contained within Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan. https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html These are opportunities to gain skills as facilitators of community accountability processes toward addressing and resolving harm. Our union hopes to use the experiences gained in these workshops toward applying them in instances of harassment and discrimination that regularly occur at OSU, both on the level of supervisors against employees and peer to peer instances. For participants the hope is that these workshops will allow you to take the practical lessons learned and apply them in your lives outside of CGE as well, such as in your other organizations, groups, peer networks, or relationships. The workshops will align with the areas of focus within Fumbling Towards Repair: Jan. 28 Area 1 Key Frameworks That Inform This Work (1-40) Feb. 11 Area 2 Food For Thought Facilitating (41-102) Feb. 25 Area 2 continued (103-120) Mar. 10 Area 3 Useful Activities To Try (121-155) Each session will include discussion and exercises from the workbook. For these sessions to be intentional and impactful, participants will need to read the documents in advance and RSVP for the dates. We ask as much as it is possible that you commit to attending each session. Participants that RSVP will be emailed copies of the reading materials. Sessions will include breaks and we'll have coffee and snacks. A brief preview of the frameworks that inform these workshops. According to the authors, Community Accountability Processes are informed by the following seven frameworks: 1) Ending sexual violence, 2) Trauma-informed practice, 3) Harm Reduction, 4) Healing Justice, 5) Prison Industrial Complex Abolition, 6) Transformative Justice, 7) Community Accountability. See more details •	26 Bargaining Session Bargaining Session February 26, 2020 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA See more details •	27 Executive Council Meeting Executive Council Meeting February 27, 2020 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Westminster House, 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA Bi-weekly meeting of the Executive Council. All members are welcome to attend. Agenda posted soon. See more details •	28	29

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