AFGE Legislative and Political Action Plan and Goals
-- 2006
The program shown below was adopted by our Union's leadership to deal with
upcoming issues affecting Federal and District of Columbia employees.
Legislative and Political Action Ten-Point Plan -- It Works!!
1: Recruit a Mobilization Coordinator for your
Local and each worksite
- Local should commit to all elements of the
AFGE 10 point program
- Local schedules regular strategy and planning
meetings
2: Build Mobilization Network capable of
contacting all worksites
- Recruit activists for mobilization network
- Build communications tree with home e-mails
and work and home phone numbers of all Executive Board members, stewards and
other network volunteers. Use non-government computer whenever
possible
- All Executive Board members, stewards and
network volunteers must sign up for AFGE's Action News
- Leaflet worksites on priority issues once per
month
- Generate action faxes, letters, telephone
calls and e-mails, as needed, to elected officials on priority issues
- Schedule regular meetings with Representatives
and Senators and/or their staff on priority issues (in the home District or
State offices of the elected officials)
3: Maximize communication with co-workers,
family members and community through workplace surveys, worksite "lunch and
learns", town meetings, union publications, bulletin boards, mailings and
press releases
- Discuss priority issues and their impact's.
Include actions that can be taken to address the issues
- Report back to members on key votes.
Discuss impact of votes and follow-up mobilization actions
- Link all these activities with new member
recruitment
- Build working relationships with area
Central Labor Councils and State Federation bodies
4: Maximize communications and
coordination between AFGE Locals both locally and State-wide
- Schedule regular strategy meetings
- Develop communications network
5: Maximize impact of mobilization
activities through union phone calls to AFGE members
- Two calls to members at home until November
encouraging them to get involved in grassroots activities and by
contributing to AFGE PAC
6: Update Locals' membership lists
- Regularly update add and drop forms
- Work with Central Labor Council or State
Federation body to develop a quality list with phone numbers, voter
registration and change of address information
- Add data field in membership lists to track
volunteers
7: Increase Voter Registration by 10%
8: Use mobilization network for
get-out-the-vote activities
- During 2006 Primary Elections
- During 2006 Congressional Elections
9: Use mobilization network to sign up
potential AFGE members
- Make Standard Forms 1187, voter
registration forms and AFGE Action News sign-up forms available at all
"lunch and learns" and other activities coordinated by the
mobilization network
- Regularly copy Standard Forms 1187 on one
side of issue fliers and other legislative/political action materials
10: Build AFGE-PAC and AFGE-LAF
- Achieve National Executive Council goal of
100% participation in AFGE-PAC by all Locals' Executive Board members and
stewards
- Develop an ongoing AFGE-PAC recruitment
program with a goal of enrolling at least 10% of each Local's members
- Make Local's annual AFGE-LAF contribution
of $2.00 per member