“We have to fight for our children’s mental health”, says a mother at tonight’s No Eviction Without Representation campaign mtg. Tenants are writing letters to their Commissioners urging them to support tenants right to representation in eviction court. ✊🏾

"Implementing a right to counsel for people facing the threat of eviction should be considered a public health imperative." 🙌💯 Say THAT.

Catch our No Evictions Without Representation campaign teach-in on YouTube! youtube.com/live/OTgxDD00m…

Residents are out in force for the Miami Dade budget hearing. Tenants telling stories of being evicted, young people asking for restoration of arts funding & climate demands, and more Shout out to Miami Workers Center DCSR Disaster Relief Team Engage Miami for leading the charge

Florida has some of the highest homeowners insurance premiums in the country, averaging $6,000. But many residents can’t even get coverage. Homeowners insurance, and home ownership, are becoming untenable in places hit by climate change. substack.perfectunion.us/p/can-we-save-…

City of Miami residents: Tomorrow morning is the city's first budget hearing. Commissioners will take public comment on the proposed $3.5 billion budget. Key highlights include a new-ish "economic innovation" department, and more. See my latest: wlrn.org/government-pol…

We organize with Haitian-origin farm workers in NY. They’re as American as the apple pie their work makes possible, but right wing racists are spreading dehumanizing lies. Haitians are not eating pets. They’re feeding America. The anti-Haitian bigotry we’re seeing is repulsive.

Hello from the Worker Co-op Conference! 🤩 We're excited for so many friends, colleagues and co-owners like the members of Miami Workers Center to come together this weekend -- tag us and use #WCC24 so we can show off our movement!

NEW: Mobile homes are one of the last remaining affordable housing options in America. Now they’ve become private equity’s latest target. Private equity firms now own at least 1200 parks nationwide. Residents have seen their rents spike by as much as 100% in the last 6 years.

BREAKING: Waffle House workers are filing a complaint with the Department of Labor alleging rampant wage theft. According Union of Southern Service Workers a stunning 90% of these underpaid workers have wages stolen by the restaurant chain. Now, they're organizing and fighting back.

For 25 years, Miami Workers Center has championed the rights of Miami’s tenants, domestic workers, and more. Now, they’re looking forward to new battles in housing and labor rights. Learn about their impact & plans for the future miamitimesonline.com/news/local/fig… #25YearsStrong

This week, we released a new report on the labor conditions in South Florida’s commercial construction industry. Despite a development boom, construction workers are facing poverty wages, wage theft & dangerous conditions like extreme heat. Read it here: we-count.org/buildbettermia

End billionaires' grip on real estate.

“We want to shift the mindset so that people do recognize domestic work as protected labor that is work like any other work, and for that reason, the home is a workplace.” via Stateline || bsky @stateline.org stateline.org/2024/12/18/why…

ICE is allowed to lie to detain you. Swipe through to learn the common tactics they use—and how to protect yourself.