COMMUNITY ACTIVISM. (a) RCLA’s model of community activism will reflect a transformative leadership approach to social justice and equity. RCLA as an element of the community will promote and practice community- centered transformative leadership principles. Transformative leadership in hierarchical, closed organizations is an effective approach used by leaders to create strong organizations of empowerment from the bottom up. RCLA will operate as a transformative, open organization of equal status to the broader community and will support empowerment within all organizations whose purpose is community-focused or student- driven. To apply transformative leadership principles to the RCLA educational setting, all members of RCLA will: • Acknowledge power and privilege; • Articulate both individual and collective purposes (public and private good); • Deconstruct social-cultural knowledge frameworks that generate inequity and reconstruct them in more equitable ways; • Balance critique and promise; • Effect deep and equitable change; • Work towards transformation – liberation, emancipation, democracy, equity, and excellence; and • Demonstrate moral courage and activism.
COMMUNITY ACTIVISM. The Union and Company agrees that community activism is an asset to the Employer in creating community goodwill. Employees will be encouraged to participate as volunteer community activists. The Employer may assign employees to work on community projects or events, in which case the employee will be paid in accordance with the hours worked and overtime provisions of this Agreement.
