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Tenant Unions Under Attack by Landlord Lobby

May 5, 2025
59:23

In this episode, Breht welcomes on Seth from Omaha Tenants United for an in-studio discussion about OTU's slate of recent successes organizing several tenant unions, and a subsequent new legal assault on the organization by the local landlord lobby. The legal implications of this attack are truly monumental for virtually all forms of organizing. They also discuss how landlordism is a feudal hangover with modern capitalist dynamics, the differences between tenant organizing and labor organizing, tenant organizing as a particularly potent site of struggle, and the material underpinnings of recent superstructural shifts in many people's views of landlords.

Local media interviews Seth on the issue HERE

OTU's Drake Court Tenant Union (Local 252) covered in local media HERE

Increasing number of renters turning to tenant unions in the Omaha metro HERE

Fed up tenants: Renters form unions to hold leasing companies accountable HERE

 

Learn more, support, and contact OTU here: https://omahatenantsunited.wordpress.com/

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