Executive Board Transparency

• Access to your Board: Executive Board meetings open to all members. RSVP for all members sent out for every Executive Board meeting, via email.

• What you want to change: Workshops where members can hear from and interact with the Board with themes (General Grievances, All About Animation Residuals, etc) and open GMM items that ask for changes to look into.

• Meeting you where you’re at: Minutes from GMMs and Board reports will be published behind a locked login wall.

Protecting Democracy at the National Level

• Animation deserves a say: Our union doesn’t bargain its own healthcare plan and our members are falling out of the plan because of a lack of hours! We will form a taskforce laser-focused on agitating around TAG’s participation in bargaining our MPIPHP conditions during the Hollywood Basic Agreement.

• Connect to the larger movement: With TAG-wide meetings about the District Conventions and Quadrennial where members can learn how we vote and tell Delegates how they want to be represented.

Open Bargaining

Information Access, Regardless of Financial Position

• Meetings with impact: GMM emails with clear, concise agendas, with a way for rank-and-file members to add items. We could even have action items if we want GMMs to be a place to get things done! Education recaps on how to drive your union through Robert’s Rules of Order.

• Update Town Halls: When GMMs aren’t happening, a Town Hall open to all members regardless of status to get everyone up to speed. Reports on contracts being negotiated, delivered by the elected negotiators themselves.

• Modernizing: Creating a shareable TAG Google events calendar members can sync to their own calendar.

Reincluding Members Experiencing Hardship

• Hardship program: Creating a Dues Deferral Program that will allow members to remain in Good Standing in times of hardship instead of being forced to go on Honorable Withdrawal. For hardship caused by low work hours, Hardship Dues if you have worked less than 120 union days in a prior quarter, capped at a certain number of quarters.

• Funding the fight: Finding ways to fund our RAD fund.

• Everyone can help: Eliminating the requirement that members must be in Good Standing to be members of a Committee.

Staffing

• Next-gen leadership: Leadership training to allow members to build up experience for future staff roles. Creating Organizer-in-Training roles.

• All hands on deck: Keeping in touch with a better member feedback circuit as members go through solving their own issues.

• Staff from the membership: Hiring next Organizer or Field Representative from our union’s rank and file.