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I will harass and aggreive the DSA at a national level for much less than 360 grand a year also thanks fermun
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looking through the information that they made available before tomorrow's budget meeting, it looks like expected revenue from dues went down by about $500,000 for 2024 and personnel expenses are expected to go up by about $750,000, primarily due to about $250,000 increase in health insurance premiums for national staff and the 2023 convention voting to give the NPC and national labor committee stipends, which are expected to hit $455,000 this year between the 20-odd people eligible. additionally $200,000 was earmarked at the convention to help 10 chapters rent an office. they also say that historically they get a big bump of membership and donation revenue on election years but that they can't rely on it, so they intend to make some cuts tomorrow with further cuts set up if cash on hand ends up down to 4 months of operation and then a new budget meeting should it raise above some length of time they determine in the future.
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fermun posted:looking through the information that they made available before tomorrow's budget meeting, it looks like expected revenue from dues went down by about $500,000 for 2024 and personnel expenses are expected to go up by about $750,000, primarily due to about $250,000 increase in health insurance premiums for national staff and the 2023 convention voting to give the NPC and national labor committee stipends, which are expected to hit $455,000 this year between the 20-odd people eligible. additionally $200,000 was earmarked at the convention to help 10 chapters rent an office. well they got to make up one hell of a hole at 30K a month was there ever a reason behind why they needed to hire a "national harassment and grievance officer" at 30K a month? I mean, it didn't occur to me that the DSA's national harassment and grievance issues were such that they needed to hire a specialist at $187.50 per hour bedpan has issued a correction as of 11:11 on Jan 14, 2024 |
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ahh, I see. Dues went down by 500K.
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is svart still employed by the dsa
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lumpentroll posted:is svart still employed by the dsa of course, why would you want to fire someone who was doing exactly what they were supposed to do? according to her linkedin, she went from graduating from the university of chicago (lmao) to the "Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group" to the "Service Employees International Union" to the "Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare" before ending up at the DSA in 2011. I've no doubt she has been wildly successful at each position.
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"standard" membership in the DSA is billed at $15 per month so the DSA needed 2000 standard members to pay a single month for the services of a "national harassment and grievance officer" bedpan has issued a correction as of 11:10 on Jan 14, 2024 |
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Ending the Grievance Officer Contractquote:Due to its massive cost, last term’s Bread & Roses NPC members led a successful effort to end the contract with Paula Brantner of PB Work Solutions, who handles national grievance issues. At our 2023 convention, our comrades in another caucus put forward a resolution to put that effort into official effect, and it passed by a wide margin. However, many months after this decision was made, PB Work Solutions is still on payroll. This is because before DSA can end her contract, we must find a replacement. Per her contract, before she departs DSA, she must spend at least a month training a replacement and is required to complete end-of-contract deliverables. Because of this, for every month DSA retains PM work solutions, DSA spends $30,000 and must pay an additional $30,000 at the conclusion of her contract.
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bedpan posted:well they got to make up one hell of a whole at 30K a month the 2019 convention had a vote to hire a NHGO, the NPC that was elected to that had very little idea about what to look for, and after over a year of not hiring anyone, they tasked maria svart to do the hiring since she had hired like all the staff. she hired a person she knew for $25,000/month for a 24 month contract and then in november 2022 there was a new NPC and they negotiated to renew it at $30,000/month for 19 months, some of the NPC thinking she was useless so getting a shorter time but they also didn't want to do a new hiring process so they kicked the can down the road to a point where the next NPC would be stuck with handling the new hiring and finances were fine at the time so they paid more to not have to deal with it themselves. this vote nearly failed, but passed due to caucuses that had a bunch of people looking to one day be consultants themselves. the next npc then fired the NHGO but didn't hire a new one, instead they created a committee to advise them on a new hiring process and tasked that committee to deliver a report to the next NPC the current NPC was elected in august, took over in september/october, got the report for the committee on recommendation to deal with the NHGO issue in november, and is going to come to a decision now later today. if a new one is hired, the old one still gets $30,000/month until the new one is hired and an additional month of pay after that as her current contract extends on a monthly basis until a new NHGO is hired i thiiiiink if she hadn't been fired that her contract would just end in 3 months, but not sure about that.
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fermun posted:the $30,000/month national harassment and grievance officer contract is because the national leadership when she was hired had assigned the national director, maria svart, to do the hiring and she went with a personal friend that doesn't identify as a socialist and disagrees with the goals of dsa and so signed a contract that said the nhgo gets paid $30,000/month until 1 month after being replaced, should she get fired. then the nhgo failed to meet her job duties and filed all paperwork months later than it was due so got fired and for some reason hasn't been replaced yet. Thank you. Svart sucks lol why is she the head the org.
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running your non-party as an ngo is turning out great
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I'm willing to be the grievance officer for $29,999 / month.
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In Training posted:Thank you. Svart sucks lol why is she the head the org. good news, she’s supposed to give her resignation to the NPC today lmao
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also why is this all in the open? why do i know this
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crazy that when you fill your org's leadership with lumpenized democrat careerists they steal all your money and push all the management decisions on to the next elected council of people to steal your money
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R. Mute posted:also why is this all in the open? why do i know this Why wouldn't it be? Woudl it be better that the membership doesn't know how their dues are being spent?
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In Training posted:Why wouldn't it be? Woudl it be better that the membership doesn't know how their dues are being spent? i don't think r. mute is a member of the dsa
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the barrier to entry is so low and member discipline so weak that it's not unreasonable to expect member only information to be functionally public
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quote:The proposed contract would allocate $540,000 in compensation for the NHGO for a term of 19 months — an annual salary of $360,000. This expenditure would represent a major chunk (approximately 5%) of DSA’s total budget and constitute a pay raise of 20% from the NHGO’s current compensation of $300,000 annually. We cannot support an expense of this magnitude on a single consultant in an internally-facing role given that this salary is wildly higher than the industry average for grievance officers.
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Whatever happened to the dsa they spent half a million dollars on inter org grievances and in fighting sounds like a rw joke lol, feel bad for all the chapters that are like organizing workplaces or forming tenants unions or whatever then dig a little deeper into the org and find out about this stuff
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How it startedAce of Baes posted:
OP 7 Years later Ace of Baes posted:Whatever happened to the dsa they spent half a million dollars on inter org grievances and in fighting sounds like a rw joke lol, feel bad for all the chapters that are like organizing workplaces or forming tenants unions or whatever then dig a little deeper into the org and find out about this stuff owns
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spending half a million dollars on inter org grievances and in fighting would be an improvement
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I saw a spreadsheet DSA management is using to cost out the staff union's bargaining proposals and their calculation of personnel costs for this year explicitly includes the cost of paying everyone's severance package lol
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Punished Turtle posted:How it started This is how Goon projects usually go.
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I was at least expecting the $30k/month person to be "king of the DSA" or something instead of a "harassment and grievance officer." How does that even happen?
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Filing harassment complaints and trying to get people kicked from dsa became the de fact way internal politics was handled (remember trying to kick liz bruenig from dsa despite her not being a member of dsa?). That poisoned the well against any internal solutions, and you don't want to be the one to vote against the external solution.
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it's only reasonable for the organization dedicated to moronic internal slapfights would have a moronic internal slapfight officer. it's even more reasonable for this person to not do anything and get paid for it because what are all the morons slapfighting gonna do? as demonstrated, nothing.
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DSA is a perfectly tuned machine aimed at taking any energy for change and channeling into irrelevant procedural nonsense. My last meeting with DSA there was a stupid slapfight for like 30 minutes over whether a particular motion could come up for a vote, and there was a whole thing about roberts rules of order and amending the agenda (note, the debate wasn't about the motion itself, but whether someone could make a motion to amend the agenda to add the motion for debate and a vote). The guy wanting to put the motion to a vote got loud at one point. So this lady interrupted him and said that as a victim of sexual assault he was triggering her by speaking loudly. He then said that as a victim of sexual assault himself he found it extremely concerning that she would casually use sexual assault that way. Which then led to mutual threats of filing grievances, a discussion of how no one internal should be able to handle it, and a promise by the chair of seeking help from national. Best part was that the motion itself was some vague pablum about engaging in electoralism even after Bernie's defeat. After the meeting was over, I cancelled my membership, and asked to be removed from the rolls (despite being allowed to continue on as a member for a while if I wanted). joepinetree has issued a correction as of 10:47 on Jan 15, 2024 |
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Grilled Beef posted:https://discussion.dsausa.org/t/dsa-january-2024-treasury-report-short-briefing/29435/34 quote:Log in to continue to DSA Discussion Board. If you haven't signed up before, visit https://optin.dsausa.org/. 
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the bitcoin of weed posted:crazy that when you fill your org's leadership with lumpenized democrat careerists they steal all your money and push all the management decisions on to the next elected council of people to steal your money
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joepinetree posted:DSA is a perfectly tuned machine aimed at taking any energy for change and channeling into irrelevant procedural nonsense. lmfao
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Cuttlefush posted:lmfao
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as a reminder, you can't be a communist alone, so even as dysfunctional as dsa is, if youre not in an org, you're a lib. it doesn't have to be dsa, though thats the only org available in a lot of places, but join salt or cpusa or whatever
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So some time ago some of the local collection of lumpenized democrat careerists in this thread were very happy they had elected an alderman, Angela Clay, in Chicago. I was wondering how she has been going. Has she achieved anything?
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fermun posted:as a reminder, you can't be a communist alone, so even as dysfunctional as dsa is, if youre not in an org, you're a lib. you can register as a democrat or republican in a lot more places
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:socialism with american characteristics Lol
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