September 17, 2020 Fighting against wage theft is how Workers’ Dignity got started more than 10 years ago, and wage theft campaigns are still a central part of our work. These campaigns are where many workers learn the organizing skills they need to take on bigger industry fights, and they

August 28, 2020 Professional basketball, baseball and soccer players are leading a wildcat strike. A political strike for Black lives, withholding their labor to demand an end to police violence and systemic racism against Black communities. They’re following in the footsteps of the WNBA, where women basketball players have held

August 26, 2020 Things are always busy at Workers’ Dignity, but it seems like we’ve been working on overdrive these last few months in response to the pandemic and in support of the national uprisings to defend Black lives. Needless to say, we never formally introduced you to Cecilia Prado,

August 23, 2020 This is our final look-back piece about our Just Hospitality campaign and housekeeper organizing. This one was hard to write, because it shares one of the most difficult experiences we’ve seen, and one that no worker or person should ever have to endure. “Two underaged girls are

August 12, 2020 Last week we shared the stories that brought housekeepers together to fight for better working conditions and how they took steps that started a movement. That first year was just the beginning. Other housekeepers hear the call, take a stand Housekeepers throughout downtown heard the call. First,

August 6, 2020 “Housekeepers are also a part of this city. We are not asking for millions. We’re only asking for respect, and for a fair salary given the hard work that we do,” Workers’ Dignity member-leader Mariana Lopez announced in 2016 at a press conference to an audience of fellow

August 4, 2020 This summer Workers’ Dignity is celebrating a major milestone: our 10 Year Anniversary! We’ve spent the last decade building worker power in Nashville by standing up against greedy bosses, fighting to change exploitative systems, and uniting working people to fight for an equitable city for all of

July 27, 2020 Two weeks ago Armando and more than two dozen fellow workers visited the home of Dr. Adrienne Battle, Director of MNPS, calling on her to use her power to end his year-long fight to win $43,000 in wages he says he’s owed for work completed at McMurray

July 14, 2020 It’s been more than a year since Armando and his team renovated McMurray Middle School, and according to him, they still haven’t been paid $43,000 for their labor. You might be aware of Armando’s fight because we’ve been  going at it for more than a year now (but

July 10, 2020 “My brother’s name is more than just a name, or an age, or a statistic on a piece of paper. To you all, to the news, to his friends at school, he is Gustavo. To us at home, he’s Kike. He’s Kikito, he’s our baby,” said Jenifer Enamorado