Name: January 2018 Delegate Assembly
Start: 2018-01-27T09:00:00-08:00
End: 2018-01-27T13:00:00-08:00
Location: Hotel Whitcomb

January 2018 Delegate Assembly

Local 21, Professional & Technical Engineers (IFPTE/AFL-CIO), represents over 10,000 professional and technical public employees throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.Local 21 serves the interests and professional growth of its members who contribute greatly to the welfare, infrastructure and prosperity of our communities. Local 21’s diverse membership includes engineers, information technology professionals, architects, planners, accountants, court professionals and a host of other professionals in various occupations.

Local 21

On behalf of the Local 21 Executive Committee, you are cordially invited to a special session of the Delegate Assembly on Saturday, January 27th at the Hotel Whitcomb in San Francisco.
We will be swearing in the newly elected Executive Committee and will have an expedited business meeting. The focus of our Assembly will be several expertly-crafted small-group workshops in support of our Conversations and Cards Campaign, which aims to prepare us for the upcoming Supreme Court decision. We will have a variety of trainings on offer for all levels, from first-time organizers to seasoned pros.
The Assembly will begin at 9:00 am with a light breakfast available, and will be followed by a special catered lunch in our San Francisco office to celebrate the new officers’ election. Please RSVP for the Assembly by Friday, January 19th. If you are a Delegate for your chapter or will be an Acting Delegate for this Delegate Assembly, we must receive your RSVP by that date.
 
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Local 21’s Special Guest
We are thrilled to welcome Paul Shearon, IFPTE Secretary/Treasurer, back to San Francisco to conduct the swearing-in of our new Executive Committee members!
 
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<H2 CLASS="MsoNormal">Paul Shearon</H2>
<H2 CLASS="MsoNormal">Secretary-Treasurer, IFPTE</H2>
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Paul Shearon was unanimously elected to serve as Secretary-Treasurer of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), AFL-CIO & CLC at the Union's 55th Convention in July 2006.
Shearon served as Organizing Director for IFPTE's largest Local, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA/Local 2001) from 1996 until being elected as the Union's Secretary-Treasurer. He ran successful organizing drives in Seattle and Wichita bringing union representation to over 5,000 employees. During SPEEA's famous 40-day strike in 2000, Shearon was charged with developing the strike plan and actively supported strike line activities. He also taught as a teaching fellow for the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute, and was a guest speaker at the Third International Conference for Professional Engineer and Scientist Organizations in Copenhagen Denmark in 2003.
During his career, Shearon worked for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company Advanced Systems Development, Stanford Research Institute and the Boeing Company. He worked as a Numerical Control Programmer, heading up the programming for Boeing's new Six-Axis Waterjets used to cut the composite empennage for the first 777 aircraft.
Shearon was born in Liverpool, England and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area before moving to Seattle, Washington. He currently resides in Silver Spring, Maryland.
 
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Conversations & Cards: The Trainings
 
At the October DA, we talked a lot about the challenges we will be facing this year with the pending Janus Supreme Court decision, and our plan to get fight back against anti-union tactics. For a little refresher, please take a few minutes to <A HREF="http://www.ifpte21.org/content/conversations-and-card-campaign" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">review the brief videos we watched</A> explaining the impact of Right-to-Work legislation and how the loss of agency fees will impact us. We received an overwhelming amount of feedback from you asking for hands-on training to build up your arsenal of organizing skills and become front-line fighters in the battle to save our Union. 
In that regard, we are thrilled to be able to offer several tailored training sessions for our Delegates and VOT to address some common occurrences in organizing our members. 
 
Of course, we will be conducting a session for anyone who has not yet started in the Conversations and Cards Campaign or those who’ve only signed a few people on Gold Cards. We are also excited to introduce three brand new trainings on a variety of mid- and high-level organizing topics:
 
#1 Getting Past “I’ll Think About It”: Instead of getting stumped and stuck by coworkers asking to think about it, we’ll discuss how to respond to the most common and difficult objections to signing the Gold Card.
 
#2 Going Deeper Into Organizing Conversations: Organizing conversations can happen anywhere, anytime. Discuss the building blocks of what makes a good organizing conversation so that you can more effectively motivate your coworkers to take action through our union.
 
#3 Developing Union Leaders: Tools to recruit new member organizers and move outside your own work area.
 
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More information will follow as we get closer to the date. We look forward to welcoming you all to San Francisco on January 27th!

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