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Rapid Response
Basics Training Ronnie Watson, Jerome Davison &
Mark McDonald
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Why Rapid
Response Works
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Overview
• Why Does it Work?
• The Basics of the Program
• Get Informed
• Get the Info Out, Get Active & Give Feedback
• Be Ready to Overcome Barriers!
• In-Between Actions
• Issues that Impact Your Local
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Why Rapid Response Works Why does it matter to my local?
Job Security Trade Law, Fast Track,
Infrastructure Investment,
Unemployment Benefits
Pensions/Retirement Pension Protection Act, Social
Security Benefits
Hours of Work Comp Time, 40 Hour Work Week
Healthcare ACA. Medicare
Health and Safety Silica Standard, OSHA, NIOSH
Having a Voice at Work RTW, NLRB Staffing, ALEC
Minimum Wage Creates Competition
increasing Leverage
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Why Rapid Response Works Why does it matter to my local?
• Education on policy that impacts our working & retirement lives
• Ability to impact those legislative decisions
• Provides experience in working with elected officials – helpful for non-legislative work too
• Build a communication structure that builds strength and solidarity
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Rapid Response Works Some wins in 2014: • Helped stop the Camp-Baucus fast track
proposal
• Got another positive outcome from our 2010 energy trade case (this time benefiting Steelworkers who mine rare earth minerals)
• Delivered more than 12,000 postcards urging infrastructure investment and Buy American (with tens of thousands more to go)
• Prevented anti-union bills from becoming law in multiple states
• Successfully pushed back against paycheck deception bills in Pennsylvania and MIssouri
• And more!!
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Why Rapid Response Works What is the “Big Picture”?
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Why Rapid Response Works
Just because you do not take an
interest in politics doesn’t mean
that politics won’t take an interest
in you.
- Pericles (430 BC)
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The Basics of the
Program
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The Basics
• The history
• Now: 20 years strong
• Fundamentals: education, one-on-
one communication, non-partisan,
bypass traditional bureaucracy
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If the 99% vote,
the 1% won’t matter!
Rapid Response gives members a
way to engage and trusts members
to vote the right way.
Why? Because . . .
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Get Informed!
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Get Informed
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Get Informed
Text: USWRapid
To: 69866
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Get Informed
www.facebook.com/USWRapidResponse
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Get Informed
Be sure that
you are signed
up to receive
our emails so
you can get
access to our
quarterly online
newsletter!
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Get the Info Out,
Get Active & Give
Feedback
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Get the Info Out
• One-on-one communication =
the heart of Rapid Response!
• Need to build and maintain a
communication network
– Rapid Response Coordinator
– Rapid Response Team
– Mapping your workplace
• Make sure your program can
adapt to change within your
local!
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Get the Info Out:
Rapid Response Coordinator
• Appointed by Local President
• Recruits a Team along with President &
ensures Team Members are engaged
• Keeps the Team informed and ready
• Reports action results
• Reports changes in Team Members
• Personally participates!
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Get the Info Out:
Mapping Your Workplace
Consider:
• Goal is 4% minimum (one per 25)
• Amalgamated or Not
• Worksite Layout & Logistical
Considerations
• Departments
• Shifts
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Get the Info Out:
Single Location Local
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South Foundry 8 Members/Shift
Finishing 2 9 Members/Shift
Shipping 4 Members/Shift Finishing 1
11 Members/Shift
North Foundry 8 Members/Shift
Extrusion 1 4 Members/Shift
Extrusion 2 4 Members/Shift
5 Shifts – 230 Members
8 Departments
Operates 7 Days a Week
Maintenance Barn 5 Members/Shift
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Get the Info Out:
Healthcare Local
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Get the Info Out:
Healthcare Local
10 Members/Shift
20 Members/Shift 4 Members/Shift
2 Members/Shift
10 Members/Shift
5 Members/Shift
15 Members/Shift
10 Members/Shift
10 Members/Shift
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Get the Info Out:
Large Facility Local
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Get the Info Out:
Large Facility Local
• 54 Acre Facility
• 2200 Members
• 12 and 8 Hour Shifts
• 7 Interchangeable Coordinators
• Local Uses Their Steward Structure
• 125 Team Members
• Rebuild Team at Contract Time
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Get the Info Out:
Amalgamated Local
• What are some of the difficulties in
setting up a Rapid Response program
in a local with multiple worksites?
• What are some ways to communicate
that could be used to increase activism?
• Should the structure of the local’s team
change?
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Get the Info Out:
Amalgamated Local
• 600 Members
• 2 Facilities
• 1 Local Union Coordinator
• 1 Coordinator for each worksite
• Very large email database
• Communicate in more non-traditional
ways
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Get the Info Out:
Rapid Response Team Members
What do we need our team members to do?
• Circulate information to an assigned
group of people
• Ensure actions are carried out
• Report results back to the RR
Coordinator
• Personally participate!
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Get the Info Out:
Who Should be a Team Member?
Necessary: Willing to do the job
Helpful:
• Interest in legislative issues
• Good communicators
• Respected by fellow members
• In the right place at the right time & can
get to others easily
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Get the Info Out:
Who Should be a Team Member?
• Women of Steel
• Next Gen Activists
• Stewards
• New Members
• SOAR
• CAT Team Members
• Political Activists
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Get the Info Out:
Who Should be a Team Member?
Can I tell you about this
great communication
network that we have? I
think you would really be
an asset . . .
Hey, I need you to
pass some stuff out
for me . . .
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Strengthening Your Network:
Supporting Your Team
• Know your team
• Keep your Team together
• Make meetings interesting
• Set high standards
• Don’t overload
• Keep people informed
• Acknowledge good work
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Get Active
• Act Only After Thorough
Education
• Types: National, State,
Local & Targeted Actions
• Defensive vs. Offensive
• Act Only When Impact
Can Be Made
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Action Tips
• RR Team is complete
& ready
• Education first! (InfoAlerts)
• Make it easy to take action
• Find convenient times to take
action
• Make people feel good about
what they’ve done
• Tell people what happened
(Feedback Report)
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Feedback is Critical!
You’ll get “Feedback Reports,” but other
feedback is just as important:
• From Team Members to Local Coordinator
• From your Local Coordinator to your Team
• Between you and your District Coordinator (or
Congressional District or Area Coordinator if
applicable)
• Always remember to report back at local
union meetings as well!
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Be Ready to
Overcome
Barriers!
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Barriers:
Mad Member
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Why Are They Mad?
• His/her grievance has
not been heard, was
withdrawn or lost in
arbitration.
• Working a shift or job
they don’t like.
• Don’t like the current
agreement.
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Barriers:
Loudmouth Member
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What Would They Say?
• You guys are just for the
Democrats!
• It doesn’t matter what we
do, the government is going
to screw us!
• I don’t trust anyone in the
government. They’re all a
bunch of thieves!
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Barriers:
Lazy Member
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What Would They Do?
• Don’t want to get involved,
even though the issue
affects them directly.
• Won’t take the initiative to
understand the issue.
• Taking a few minutes to
write a note is out of the
question.
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Barriers:
“I Don‟t Care” Member
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What is Their Reaction?
• I don’t want to hear
anything.
• I don’t want to see
anything.
• I don’t want to talk about
anything.
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Barriers:
Timid Member
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What is Their Reaction?
• Don’t want to confront
anyone or be confronted
by anyone.
• Shy away from talking
about the issue.
• Usually don’t participate,
even though they believe
the issue is right.
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Barriers:
Uninformed Member
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Why Are They Uninformed?
• Don’t take the time to
understand or read
about the issue.
• Only listen to one
side of the issue.
• Don’t take the time to
understand how the
issue affects them as
a worker.
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In-Between
Actions
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What do We do In-Between
Actions?
• Check your seniority lists for new employees to be
sure your entire membership is in the network
• Use opportunities such as local union meetings to
educate your membership on issues that affect them
at work
• Find ways to work with your
community or your employer
on specific issues
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Issues that
Impact Your Local
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Issues that Impact Your Local:
NO to Fast Track & NO to TPP
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Current Actions: Saving Our Jobs
Bring Jobs Home
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Current Actions: Saving Our Jobs
Currency Manipulation
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Issues that Impact Your Local:
Buy American
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Issues that Impact Your Local:
Green Jobs Investment
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Issues that Impact Your Local:
Unemployment
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Issues that Impact Your Local:
Invest in America
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Issues that Impact Your Local: -
Stop „Right to Work‟ & Other Worker
Attacks
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Issues that Impact Your Local: :
Public Sector
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Why Rapid Response Matters
• Education on policy that impacts our working & retirement lives
• Ability to impact those legislative decisions
• Provides experience in working with elected officials – helpful for non-legislative work too
• Build a communication structure that builds strength and solidarity
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The most common way that
people give up their power is
by thinking they don’t have
any. - Alice Walker