Dear John,
I am incredibly excited to announce that Missouri Workers Center has joined our network! Please join me in welcoming our new affiliate, who is seeding deep and meaningful relationships among workers, engaging in powerful local organizing, and building a movement of working people across the state. |
Since its founding in 2021, Missouri Workers Center has brought together low-wage, Black, white, Brown, urban, and rural workers from across the state to build power and win good jobs for all. They have supported workers with creating multiracial, cross-geographic organizing committees and strategized around winning better pay, safe working conditions, and the right to form a union. In places like Kansas City, they have built deep relationships, supported striking workers, and formed a housing coalition to pass a Right to Counsel law for workers and tenants facing eviction. Missouri Workers Center is building a state-wide, multiracial and democratic movement for working people to wield power and have a say in the decisions that impact their daily lives.
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In the past year alone, Missouri Workers Center has: -
Organized 27 actions across the state,
- Won free legal representation for tenants facing eviction,
- Supported striking Taco Bell workers in Kansas City and striking Amazon workers at the STL8 warehouse in St. Charles, and
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Advocated for Clean Slate Missouri to automate the expungement process for workers with criminal records.
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We now have 21 affiliates in cities and states across the country, but we are not growing our network just for the sake of growing. We are strategically building power with groups who are transforming their communities and working towards multiracial, feminist democracies — and Missouri Workers Center is doing just that.
If you’re not already following their work, you can sign up for their email list and follow them on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Keep an eye out for our upcoming interview with MWC’s Executive Director, Jeremy Al-Haj!
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