Enforcing Membership Participation Commitments & Entering A New Term with Reduced Leadership Capacity

 

This resolution was passed at the 2026 Fall Membership Meeting via Zoom on October 25th, 2026.

WHEREAS, at the Summer Membership Meeting, our membership adopted a resolution for UAWD’s Strategy for Leadership Development, which called upon the Steering Committee to present a resolution at the Annual meeting, “affirming the organizational needs for various leadership positions and the ways we will ensure they are filled, along with a timeline for filling them”, and

WHEREAS the Steering Committee & Editorial Board will be seating a smaller number of active members than last year’s election, our Membership Development Committee needs members to be making regular calls & supporting orientation and onboarding activities, and our Organizing Committee needs more UAWD members to be developing their Local Chapter organizing, and

WHEREAS, this same resolution called for the Annual Meeting resolution to include “a potential timeline for enforcement of our Member Commitments.” Therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED, 
  1. The Steering Committee and Editorial Board will be operating with fewer active members than had been previously. Both bodies will compromise on some previously assigned political roles until they seat a fuller team. Both bodies will come out of the Annual Meeting and determine their own reduced capacities, and communicate with the membership about the impacts of reduced capacity while maintaining our primary strategic pillars: building Local Chapters and distributing Daily Struggle online and in print.
  2. Starting in January 2027, the Steering Committee will be tasked with contacting all current Members that are not meeting our established Member Participation Commitments to notify them that they will be moved to Supporter status. Any Supporter can become a Member again in the future at any time by signing our Member Pledge.