Fight for a Fair Economy

1. Fight for a Fair Economy

2. Wall Street: Recovery FORTUNE December 1, 2010 Goldman turns 'upbeat' on U.S. recovery FOXNEWS.com July 22, 2010 Recovery: At Least for Wall Street Jobs Today’s disappointing jobless claims numbers don’t seem to be dampening the mood on Wall Street where finding a job isn’t as tough as it was in the last few years. New York TimesNovember 3, 2010 Wall Street Gets Its Groove Back Wall Street pay seems to defy gravity: Bonuses will be up this year, according to a study to be released on Thursday by a Wall Street compensation expert, Alan Johnson. The survey shows that overall compensation in financial services will rise 5 percent this year, with employees in some businesses like asset management getting increases of 15 percent.

3. Main Street: Crisis

4. Public Services Under Attack

5. Public Employees Scapegoated Battle Looms Over Huge Costs of Public Pensions By Ron Leiber, August 6, 2010 Salon.com Public employee unions: The GOP's new whipping boy State employees are the "new privileged class," says governor whose last job was cutting taxes for billionaires Public Enemy No. 1: Civil Servants? By Ben Adler August 12, 2010

6. Public Employees Scapegoated

7. Declining Union Strength 7%

8. We’re All in it Together

9. Big Corporations Are Not Paying Their Share ZERO Taxes Paid in 2009

10. Business Has Bounced Back But Where Are the Jobs?

11. CHALLENGEEconomic Crisis OPPORTUNITY Fight for a Fair Economy

12. Mobilize for More Jobs, Better Jobs

13. Public-private partnerships • Infrastructure investments • Procurement policies that support hiring and manufacturing in America • Tax measures that incentivize employment growth, penalize outsourcing, and raise revenues for quality services and jobs Promote Job Creation, Other Pro-Worker Policies

14. Jump Start Private-Sector Organizing • 15 cities where we can make this work a major focus of resources, members, allies. • Concentrate where we have the most to win. • Build a grassroots movement. • Mobilize members on an huge scale. • Take advantage of – or campaign for – a NLRB rule change to require 10-day elections.

15. Continue to Work on Division Organizing Goals • National support for campaigns in key sectors – human services, early learning, healthcare reform related targets, and higher ed (esp. targeted cities). • Support for large public unit campaigns in states with public card check. • Unify plans and coordinate organizing through the California Public Organizing Program. • Ensure that each local allocates 20 percent.

16. Develop New Models for Addressing Public Sector Crisis

17. California’s ComprehensiveState Campaign • Multi-year, multi-local campaign. • Build a grassroots campaign to fix the state’s broken public financial system and protect vital public services. • Mobilize members, non-union workers, students, homeowners, and small businesses to demand accountability from large corporations. • Work in coalition to fix the state’s structural budget, pension, and governance issues. • Set the stage for 2012 by increasing our footprint in the Central Valley and Inland Empire.

18. California’s ComprehensiveState Campaign • Begin building and expanding our base of activists and allies. • Fight for and win some revenue and consumer protections at the state and local level – and prevent more devastating budget cuts. • Mobilize more members through systematic member education and leadership development. • Expand the movement demanding accountability from Wall Street and big corporations. • 2012: Win a 2/3 coalition (with some Rs) and/or ballot initiatives on structural or revenue issues

19. Change the Political Climate:Protect Workers’ Voice

20. Change the Political Climate:Reform Broken Immigration Laws

21. What Does This Mean for Us? • What will our union, our communities, and our state look like in 10 years if we don’t take action now? • What will it take to involve members on the scale we need to create heat in the streets and win?