Providers, unions, policy experts, and government share one room to build a wage-scale proposal, a revenue plan, and a legislative framework — and to leave with named commitments carrying the work into a campaign launching mid-November.
Get everyone in the room, name the power assembled, and ground the day in the history that brought us here.
Why we're here — the power of our bases converging, a short-lived political opening, and the launch of a wage justice campaign. Electeds are brought in early so the legislative framework matches our timeline, not the other way around.
Roll call and pep talk — who's here, who isn't (the enemy), and what our coming together makes possible. We name the scale of the need early: the wage scale, budget numbers, and precedent from other states go up on the wall now, before the day's discussion begins.
Small groups build a shared timeline of how we got here, then walk through it together with a spotlight on wins already in the room.
Test the proposal against the room, hear from the electeds who can move it, and build the partnerships that carry it statewide.
Roughly ten state and NYC electeds say, specifically, what they're doing to champion wage justice — reacting live to a visual of the legislative framework's components, and ideally declaring interest in co-sponsoring a set of bills together.
Groups of six rotate through facilitated tables, mixed across geography and stakeholder group.
How do we build a statewide, cross-setting thriving wage — and what partnerships does that take? What can we learn from New Mexico? Panelists surface outreach tactics, escalation, and partnership lessons that feed straight into the afternoon workshop.
Split into the work that actually needs doing, then bring it back into the room as commitments people are accountable to.
Providers, union staff, and base-building orgs already part of or headed toward a POP Campaign Committee. At least one NYC group and one outside-NYC group.
Policy advocates, electeds, funders, and union leaders sit with the hardest open questions.
Each track reports back: committee commitments and 2–3 calendared statewide activities from Track 1; Year 1 and Year 2 campaign milestones from Track 2 — with a facilitator pulling out how progress gets tracked going forward.