Coalition Building

General Strike San diego

coalition building meeting

Once a month GSUS San Diego hosts a coalition building meeting, where we discuss ways to better serve our local communities and each others’ organizations.

Our next meeting is on August 19, 2026 at 6:15PM

Coalition Building meeting

Agenda for the next meeting

  1. Community Agreements for this coalition
    1. What actions/behaviors are essential for coalition partners?
    2. What actions/behaviors are grounds to remove from coalition work?
  2. Pragmatics of organized labor striking
    1. When are various local union’s contracts over?
    2. Can new contracts be aligned with a May Day 2028 end date?
    3. Do we know if our contracts have “no strike” clauses/language?
    4. New ASE contract from UAW 4811 has language that employees can choose not to cross a picket line → potential vehicle for solidarity striking; can similar language be incorporated in other union’s contracts?
  3. Networks of support
    1. Mutual aid
    2. Political education
    3. Organizing the unorganized
    4. How do we coordinate our efforts?
  4. Announce upcoming events/actions
    1. Choose one event that we will seek to mobilize members to as a coalition
  5. Action Items from previous meeting
    a. Set a standard of principle and conduct going forward for the coalition, i.e community agreement
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Let’s build A New World Together!

  • Addressing urgent needs
  • Empower your local community and organization
  • Pool resources together
  • Create long term permanent social change
Centralized
COALITION BUILDING MEANS…

Goal Oriented thinking

Too often, community problems seem large and insurmountable by any given single organization or community member. Building a coalition of different groups, organizations and individuals, in a single unified common cause, is an effective tool in solving these problems. Coalitions exists to create and/or support efforts to reach a set goal.

Decentralized