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Whenever I wonder about the point of unions or what they can accomplish, the highlights here give some good input on that.
Highlights
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“You will learn how powerful you are.”
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First, the organization will organize a racially diverse coalition in the South
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Next, it has to organize that coalition around the idea that “this country is one big real estate company.” Above all, tenants unions believe that corporate landlords are the problem; their members often say that housing is not an investment but a right.
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Rights require political power. The Louisville Tenants Union runs candidates for City Council and pressures local politicians to support tenants’ rights. Its strongest political strategy at the moment is pushing for local ordinances that give community members the authority to assess new housing developments that use city resources to determine whether they would displace residents or reduce a neighborhood’s affordability.
✏️ Political pressure, affecting things locally in terms of ordinances, community power, pressure on the leaders, etc. This all can make a difference. 🔗 View Highlight
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After it does all that across the state, it just has to join tenants unions in other states to, Poe explained, “hold a national rent strike, crash the system and dictate our demands and build the country that we want on top of that.”
✏️ Organizing on a country level with others can go up against the big boys. I’m still having trouble envisioning why leaders or corps would care, but yeah. 🔗 View Highlight