Presenters: Ron Gross, NYSUT 2^nd Vice President; Carrie Andrews, NYSUT Director of Constituency & Program Services

The Local Action Project (“LAP”) is about building power within locals. This session will provide an overview on the steps teams will take over the next two years to build power and accomplish their goals. Participants will review pillars of LAP- Organizing, Social Justice, Political and Community Engagement and how each relate to their project. Teams will explore the differences between strategic planning from year one and the campaign planning that will be the focus for their work in year two. 

Presenters: Christine Sarni, Labor Relations Specialist, Nassau Regional Office; Steven Lagnena, Labor Relations Specialist, Suffolk Regional Office

Do your vision, mission, and values:

• Build local capacity?
• Inform the selected campaign?
• Benefit your members? 
• Impact your recruitment, engagement, and development of new and current members? 
• Do they need to be tweaked?

In this session, participants will be asked to review the work they did last year surrounding their vision, mission, and values. 

Presenters: Loren Fountaine, Labor Relations Specialist, North Country Regional Office; Andrew Voigt, Labor Relations Specialist, Syracuse Regional Office

How will you move your LAP campaign?  Participants in this workshop will reflect upon their current leadership structure. They will analyze their local data to create a strategy to “expand their bench.” This will be essential to moving their campaign and other LAP initiatives.

Presenters: Christine Sarni, Labor Relations Specialist, Nassau Regional Office; Steven Lagnena, Labor Relations Specialist, Suffolk Regional Office

Campaigns are used for a variety of situations including, but not limited to funding, negotiations, non-contractual issues, contractual issues, school budgets/budgeting, Board of Education elections, coalitions, and addressing concerns in the community.  A tenet of LAP is the ability for the locals to create and sustain campaigns around issues that are important to their union and the community they serve. This workshop will familiarize participants with core components of a successful campaign.

Presenters: Steven Lagnena, Labor Relations Specialist, Suffolk Regional Office; Christine Sarni, Labor Relations Specialist, Nassau Regional Office; Kathryn Dein, Labor Relations Specialist, Nassau Regional Office

The first step in developing a campaign is identifying an issue and determining the demand.  Participants in this session will review the best practices for choosing and issue to organize around and help them create a campaign demand that will resolve or mitigate an identified issue. 

Presenters: Christine Sarni, Labor Relations Specialist, Nassau Regional Office; Steven Lagnena, Labor Relations Specialist, Suffolk Regional Office

In this session participants will determine the demand for their campaign and draft SMART Goals to support the campaign demand.                                                                                            

Presenters: Christine Sarni, Labor Relations Specialist, Nassau Regional Office; Steven Lagnena, Labor Relations Specialist, Suffolk Regional Office

Being able to identify who has the power to grant you your demand is critical for any campaign.   Participants will walk through a power analysis and then conduct one of their own.  Upon completion of their power analysis, teams will determine who has the power to make the decisions (targets). 

Presenters: Regional Political Organizers TBD

This session will identify strategies for internal organizing.  Teams will pull from their toolbox previously learned strategies, such as mapping and charting, to identify potential leaders and create a structure for actions teams.  

Presenters:  Alexandra Castillo Kesper, NYSUT Member Organizer; Amy Solar Greco, NYSUT Member Organizer

This session will define what a strategy is and identify strategies that will move the decision makers to “yes”.   Using their identified targets from the power analysis, teams will develop a strategy to meet the campaign demand.  Participants in this session will also discern what makes a good tactic based on their issue, goal/demand, target, and strategy. They will examine the best practices for developing, analyzing, and escalating tactics to achieve their goal.

Presenters: Christine Sarni, Labor Relations Specialist, Nassau Regional Office; Steven Lagnena, Labor Relations Specialist, Suffolk Regional Office

This session focuses on what you have learned throughout the week and understanding how to apply that learning to your campaign plans along with your own relational resources. Locals will brainstorm tactics to engage the community in moving targets in their campaign.

Presenters: Louisa Fletcher Pacheco, Regional Political Organizer, Western New York Regional Office; TBD

In this session you will learn the power of your relationships and how to move decision makers from marginal support to full support on your campaign.  Locals will brainstorm tactics to move political targets in their campaign.

Presenters: Louisa Fletcher Pacheco, Regional Political Organizer, Western New York Regional Office; TBD

This session will examine the significance of one-to-one conversations. Participants will have an opportunity to develop one-to-one conversations to move members or communities into action relevant to their campaign. 

Presenters: Steven Lagnena, Labor Relations Specialist, Suffolk Regional Office; Elizabeth Vignaux, Labor Relations Specialist, Western NY Regional Office

Presenters: Steven Lagnena, Labor Relations Specialist, Suffolk Regional Office; Elizabeth Vignaux, Labor Relations Specialist, Western NY Regional Office

In this session, year 3 LAP locals will share their experiences, lessons learned, and best practices with first- and second-year LAP Locals.  

Basket Drawing

Communicating effectively within your union and to the outside world is crucial to running a successful advocacy campaign. In this session, participants will create a communications plan based on their campaign objectives. Participants will then identify the best practices for key campaign communication tactics.

Facilitators: James Morrison, NYSUT Director of Communications; Ben Amey, Media Relations Representative, Communications

Participants will demonstrate how to identify specific goals in their campaign timelines. The overall goal of these tactics is to apply pressure on the targeted outcomes. Participants will have an opportunity to take inventory of their tactics and determine the placement of tactics on their “campaign mountain.”

Facilitator: Steve Lagnena, Labor Relations Specialist, Suffolk Regional Office

In this session participants will review the booklet your LAP team will use to identify campaign demands, targets, strategies and needed resources. We will review campaign phases and timeline, and discuss best practices when thinking about your resource requests.

Facilitators: Jennifer Kaseman, NYSUT Director of Membership Growth and Organizing; Jeff Lockwood, NYSUT CFO, Director of Finance

This workshop will feature our 3^rd year graduating LAP locals.  The 1^st and 2^nd year teams will have time with each of the 3^rd year locals.  The 3^rd year locals will be giving advice and lessons “from the trenches.”  1^st and 2^nd year locals will also have time to ask questions of the 3^rd year locals.