
Our union is a network of tenants helping each other fight landlords. Through a model of combative action, including marches and picket lines in front of landlords' offices and homes, banner installations, and petitions, we've secured hundreds and thousands of dollars for ourselves and other tenants of various landlords.
We believe in solidarity, mutual aid, community organizing, and direct action. These strategies allow us to fight for decreased rents, to stop evictions or harassment, and to better our building's conditions. We train each other to become organizers who can autonomously build tenants' unions between neighbours in our buildings and on our streets.
We are fighting for neighbourhood autonomy. Today, our neighbourhoods are owned and controlled almost entirely by landlords, the real estate industry and other corporations. We believe that neighborhood life should be run by the people who live there. By organizing tenants, we hope to build a mass movement capable of leading a perpetual general rent strike, where Montreal tenants cease to recognize the authority of their landlords in their buildings, and cease to recognize the need to pay rent. Instead of landlord control, we advocate the autonomous self-management of our buildings and neighbourhoods by the people who live in them. We can't promise we'll reach that point, but we can promise a strong network of solidarity in the meantime. Neighborhood by neighborhood, street by street, we seek to build the mass movement that can fight for tenants and empower working-class people to fight against all forms of exploitation and oppression.
If you're a tenant, you should never again have to fight alone. Every tenant needs a union. Join our union. Let's fight together!