<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hey folks,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Happy new year! 2020 is the year we extend employer-subsidized transit passes to thousands more Seattle workers. Our goal is to pass legislation in the first half of the year.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">TRU’s organizing team will be meeting later this month to develop our organizing plan. But we also need a research & data plan. I’m wondering if we can schedule a meeting soon to discuss what role this group might be play in the campaign. <a href="https://doodle.com/poll/cdvi9gp8shz4nprp" class="">Here’s a doodle poll</a> for evenings the week starting Jan. 27. If you’re interested in this discussion, please fill out the poll by the end of this week. (I chose 5:30-7pm as the meeting time, but we could shift this earlier or later depending on people’s schedules— if you prefer a different start time, maybe make a note of that in the poll.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My main idea so far is that we could design an online survey to collect input on the details of the legislation. Something like:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">Here’s our basic proposal: employers with over 500 employees worldwide have to offer a 50% transit subsidy. What do you think of it? (Hate it to love it, scale 1-10 or whatever)</div><div class="">Here’s ten ways the proposal could get more complicated, what do you think of each one?</div><div class="">- include an upper tier for employers with 1000+ or 5000+ employees in Seattle, require 75% or 90% or 100% transit subsidy</div><div class="">- exempt non-profits</div><div class="">- include v. exclude part-time, temporary/seasonal, and contract employees</div><div class="">- etc.</div><div class="">Any other thoughts or ideas? (open-ended)</div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And maybe we also do a survey specifically for businesses… not sure if that’s a good idea, but worth considering.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Maybe there are other projects we could work on too that would be helpful to the campaign at this point. For example, it would be great to get a better sense of how many employees our legislation would impact. It’s possible we could do some back-of-the-napkin calculations and be able to say “this would result in at least X workers being offered better transit benefits” or something like that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Katie</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="">Katie Wilson</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font color="#666666" class="">General Secretary</font></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font color="#666666" class="">Transit Riders Union</font></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font color="#666666" class=""><a href="https://transitriders.org" class="">https://transitriders.org</a></font></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class=""><font color="#666666" class="">206-781-7204</font></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font color="#999999" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">The Transit Riders Union is a democratic organization of working and poor </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">people, including students, seniors, and people with disabilities, taking control over our own lives, and building up the power we </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">need to change society for the good of humanity and of the planet. We will </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">fight to preserve, expand, and improve the public transportation system in </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">Seattle and beyond, so that every human being has access to safe, </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">affordable, and reliable public transit.</font></i></div></div></div>
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