Meeting Minutes

Mission Statement

The UTD RAINBOW CAUCUS is a group of individuals committed to empowering themselves and their colleagues through promoting, exploring, informing, and helping define: issues affecting the health, safety, and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees, students and parents of the Miami-Dade Public school system. 1) gay and lesbian issues; 2) gay and lesbian youth issues; and 3) health issues.

Purpose

The purpose of the UTD Rainbow Caucus is threefold:
1. To bring together the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and allied members of the United Teachers of Dade for the purpose of establishing a cohesive communicative caucus; one which will take definitive positions on the issues within and outside of the United Teachers of Dade which affect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and to make our position known to the United Teachers of Dade by those means necessary and available to us by going to the elected leadership of the UTD Executive Board.

2. To advance the UTD union philosophy in our larger community.

3. To achieve solidarity through diversity within the labor movement and total integration in a society free of discrimination and harassment with regard to real or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, religion, creed, age, special needs, physical or mental disabilities, appearance, economic status, marital status, or political affiliation.

Meetings
Primarily on Tuesdays of each month from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Please refer to the UTD Edge for the next upcoming meeting.

How to Join the Rainbow Caucus?
Our membership is open to any person who is a member of the United Teachers of Dade or the Retired Teachers Chapter of the United Teachers of Dade and is committed to the mission stated herein.

Honey, just show up at a meeting and we will welcome you with open arms!

Officers

Julie Hood,  interim President
Rosey Cadet, interim Vice President
Melissa Keller, interim Secretary
This could be you, Treasurer
Robert Loupo, interim Member at Large
Don Henson, interim Member at Large
Janis Kaufman, interim Member at Large

interim Beautiful People:
Deborah Eubanks
Virginia DiMichele
Tom Lander
Michael Molnar, UTD Staff Liaison