July 20, 2024 Meeting Minutes
President Michael Mackay called the Meeting to order at 13:06 Eastern 10:06 Pacific.
Introductions were completed with Pronouns
Minutes Review/Discussion
April Meeting Minutes were displayed, May meeting did not have a quarum and the June meetings was canceled due to techical issues with the reminder email; there was no discussion, and the minutes were approved.
Approve the Agenda
The agenda was approved with an addtion of Sandi talking about how the promotion at the ATU International Women's Caucus Convention.
AGENDA Items:
By-Laws Vote for 758 TTPC
Motion by Binschus to approve the submitted By-laws of ATU 758 Transit Togetherness Pride Caucus (TTPC), 2nd by Sandi, Motion carried with a unaimous vote.
Carlos brought up the challenges that they were having related to establishing their caucus's banking account.
Discussion about ATU Local 843's developing Pride Caucus "Ride with PRIDE" and issues that they will likely come across.
Conference Discussion
President Mackay discussed that if we are going to have a conference we need to get the ball moving. Options presented were October (everyone seemed to agree there wasn't enough time to make this happen), holding it the thursday, friday, and saturday before the ATU International Convention meeting, or holding sessions during the evenings of the ATU International Convention.
President Mackay indicated that we should work on making one or more resolutions for the ATU International Convention. Something that he has been thinking of is changing how speakers address groups of members to something like "Sisters, Brothers, & Siblings" or "Sisters, Brothers, & Members". (See ATU CGL 6.16 for requirements on making a resolution).
Lillian & Sandi have been appointed to be the conference planning co-chairs.
Caucus Promotion
Sandi talked about how she was promoting the PRIDE Caucus at the ATU International Women's Caucus Conference in June.
Business not on Agenda from membership
Motion to end this meeting by Lillian with a second by Brendan; Motion carried at 14:22 ET/11:22 PT.
Reminder
Our next meeting is August 17, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern. All participants must register for future meetings and receive the meeting details in an email from Zoom. The Zoom registration link shall be posted on the atupride.org website and sent via the newsletter mailing list.