Grassroots Reports
Cultivating Resilience: 2023 Impact Report
MWC remains determined to build power from the grassroots. From campaign planning, to tenant organizing meetings, to monthly Women’s Circles and committee meetings, members of MWC put their all into making 2023 successful!
Explore the work of our organization and dig into Cultivating Resilience: 2023 Impact Report!
Membership Yearbook '23
Our 2023 Yearbook is a display of members’ hard work and dedication to making Miami a better place for all people, especially working-class Black and immigrant people who are the foundation of this City and County. In 2023, we grew our committees, further developed leaders’ capacity to facilitate, recruit, and build strategy, and cultivated caring spaces for our beloved community.
Read the writing, stories, and poetry from members and learn more about the work Miami Workers Center accomplished in 2023.
People Powered: Developing Grassroots Leaders to Transform Our Communities
We had an incredible 2022, a year in which we leveraged our people power to achieve transformative changes to infrastructure – increasing the supports and protections available to renters, ideating around new possibilities and innovations with domestic workers, lifting up the voices of Black and brown women and their families in our neighborhoods and increasing accountability to priorities and needs identified by them. But we are not sitting back and taking these wins for granted. We are just getting started!
Miami Tenant Bill of Rights
After knocking on thousands of doors throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic to build with our neighbors facing evictions, abuse, and displacement, Miami Workers Center members decided to launch a campaign to win a Tenant Bill of Rights, written by and for the people who are closest to the problem.
Over a year of struggle later, led by Miami renters and members of the Miami Workers Center who are on the frontlines of displacement, we finally passed a Tenant Bill of Rights in Miami in May 2022. Our legislation aims to address the housing issues we as tenants face, especially related to affordability, access, health, and landlord accountability.
This victory is only the beginning – our rights are only as strong as they are enforced. Read the full grassroots report published alongside our legal partners of Community Justice Project.
The Other Side of the Storm: What Do Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of COVID-19 Teach Us About Building a Resilient Care Infrastructure?
This report revealed the continued exploitation, safety hazards, and insecurity felt by Black immigrant domestic workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Entitled “The Other Side of the Storm,” the report found that the pandemic exposed already vulnerable workers to new dangers while perpetuating the mistreatment and lack of standards experienced by domestic workers before the pandemic began. ‘The Other Side of the Storm’ also shares what Black immigrant domestic workers want and need to feel supported in their lives and careers and calls for Congress to pass a National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights as a solution to fortify our care infrastructure and economy, while providing relief to this workforce during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
‘The Other Side of the Storm’ is a follow-up to NDWA’s initial ‘Notes from the Storm’ report, which examined the experiences of Black immigrant domestic workers in Miami, New York, and Massachusetts just as the pandemic hit in 2020. ‘The Other Side of the Storm’ returned to these regions in 2021 and features data and anecdotes from surveys, focus groups, and interviews of more than 1,000 respondents.
2020-2021 Impact Report:
The Deep, Transformative, Essential Practice of Organizing
“By focusing on building a solid foundation under our feet over the past two years, we are strongly poised to achieve transformative change for our members and our communities. We are already doing it! We are building power together for the long-term changes we seek. We see this strength reflected in the power of our campaign strategies and in the confidence of our members. You can hear the power in the voices and stories of our members in this impact report. Our path in 2022-2023 is clear, Miami Workers Center will continue to build power with the people to achieve change.”