Upcoming events.
Stop NextEra SC Campaign Meeting
Cola Tenants and Tricounty Tenants have joined forces to oppose the proposed merger between Dominion and NextEra. The organizations will convene weekly for campaign planning and workshopping.
If approved, this acquisition would form the world’s largest investor-owned utility company. Dominion’s current operations are already causing significant harm, and this merger would only compound those issues. Mega-monopolies inherently extract resources from communities and deepen social and economic inequality, making it vital to prevent this transaction.
The final decision is set to be made on January 29, 2027.
A primary concern is NextEra’s track record with its existing customer base. In 2024, Florida Power & Light (FPL), a NextEra subsidiary, disconnected power to customers at more than double the rate of Dominion in South Carolina and nearly four and a half times the rate of Duke Energy Carolinas in the Upstate region.
Join us stop the merger!
SC Tenants Member Orientation
SC Tenants is a multi-racial, working-class organization dedicated to building tenant power.
If you've recently joined, want to learn how we've grown in the past year, or just want to welcome your neighbors into the union -- join us for this online orientation session!
SC Tenant Union Member Orientation is a space to:
learn what we’re fighting for this legislative session,
understand how eviction sealing fits into the larger fight for housing justice,
hear how our union is structured and how decisions are made,
find real ways to plug in — no matter your capacity
Open to all tenants across South Carolina. This is a fully virtual event.
Stop NextEra SC Campaign Meeting
Cola Tenants and Tricounty Tenants have joined forces to oppose the proposed merger between Dominion and NextEra. The organizations will convene weekly for campaign planning and workshopping.
If approved, this acquisition would form the world’s largest investor-owned utility company. Dominion’s current operations are already causing significant harm, and this merger would only compound those issues. Mega-monopolies inherently extract resources from communities and deepen social and economic inequality, making it vital to prevent this transaction.
The final decision is set to be made on January 29, 2027.
A primary concern is NextEra’s track record with its existing customer base. In 2024, Florida Power & Light (FPL), a NextEra subsidiary, disconnected power to customers at more than double the rate of Dominion in South Carolina and nearly four and a half times the rate of Duke Energy Carolinas in the Upstate region.
Join us stop the merger!
Tri-County Tenant Union Monthly Meeting
Tri-County Tenants is a union created and led by everyday tenants living in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to collectively address issues tenants in our area are facing. Through community organizing, education, and advocacy, Tri-County Tenants builds tenant power to assert our rights, demand accountability from landlords and policymakers, and improve our material conditions as tenants.
November Cola Tenant Union Monthly Meeting
Tri-County Tenants is a union created and led by everyday tenants living in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to collectively address issues tenants in our area are facing. Through community organizing, education, and advocacy, Tri-County Tenants builds tenant power to assert our rights, demand accountability from landlords and policymakers, and improve our material conditions as tenants.
Stop NextEra SC Campaign Meeting
Cola Tenants and Tricounty Tenants have joined forces to oppose the proposed merger between Dominion and NextEra. The organizations will convene weekly for campaign planning and workshopping.
If approved, this acquisition would form the world’s largest investor-owned utility company. Dominion’s current operations are already causing significant harm, and this merger would only compound those issues. Mega-monopolies inherently extract resources from communities and deepen social and economic inequality, making it vital to prevent this transaction.
The final decision is set to be made on January 29, 2027.
A primary concern is NextEra’s track record with its existing customer base. In 2024, Florida Power & Light (FPL), a NextEra subsidiary, disconnected power to customers at more than double the rate of Dominion in South Carolina and nearly four and a half times the rate of Duke Energy Carolinas in the Upstate region.
Join us stop the merger!
Stop NextEra SC Campaign Meeting
Cola Tenants and Tricounty Tenants have joined forces to oppose the proposed merger between Dominion and NextEra. The organizations will convene weekly for campaign planning and workshopping.
If approved, this acquisition would form the world’s largest investor-owned utility company. Dominion’s current operations are already causing significant harm, and this merger would only compound those issues. Mega-monopolies inherently extract resources from communities and deepen social and economic inequality, making it vital to prevent this transaction.
The final decision is set to be made on January 29, 2027.
A primary concern is NextEra’s track record with its existing customer base. In 2024, Florida Power & Light (FPL), a NextEra subsidiary, disconnected power to customers at more than double the rate of Dominion in South Carolina and nearly four and a half times the rate of Duke Energy Carolinas in the Upstate region.
Join us stop the merger!
Stop NextEra SC Campaign Meeting
Cola Tenants and Tricounty Tenants have joined forces to oppose the proposed merger between Dominion and NextEra. The organizations will convene weekly for campaign planning and workshopping.
If approved, this acquisition would form the world’s largest investor-owned utility company. Dominion’s current operations are already causing significant harm, and this merger would only compound those issues. Mega-monopolies inherently extract resources from communities and deepen social and economic inequality, making it vital to prevent this transaction.
The final decision is set to be made on January 29, 2027.
A primary concern is NextEra’s track record with its existing customer base. In 2024, Florida Power & Light (FPL), a NextEra subsidiary, disconnected power to customers at more than double the rate of Dominion in South Carolina and nearly four and a half times the rate of Duke Energy Carolinas in the Upstate region.
Join us stop the merger!
SC Tenants Member Orientation
SC Tenants is a multi-racial, working-class organization dedicated to building tenant power.
If you've recently joined, want to learn how we've grown in the past year, or just want to welcome your neighbors into the union -- join us for this online orientation session!
SC Tenant Union Member Orientation is a space to:
learn what we’re fighting for this legislative session,
understand how eviction sealing fits into the larger fight for housing justice,
hear how our union is structured and how decisions are made,
find real ways to plug in — no matter your capacity
Open to all tenants across South Carolina. This is a fully virtual event.
December Cola Tenant Union Monthly Meeting
Tri-County Tenants is a union created and led by everyday tenants living in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to collectively address issues tenants in our area are facing. Through community organizing, education, and advocacy, Tri-County Tenants builds tenant power to assert our rights, demand accountability from landlords and policymakers, and improve our material conditions as tenants.
Tri-County Tenant Union Monthly Meeting
Tri-County Tenants is a union created and led by everyday tenants living in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to collectively address issues tenants in our area are facing. Through community organizing, education, and advocacy, Tri-County Tenants builds tenant power to assert our rights, demand accountability from landlords and policymakers, and improve our material conditions as tenants.
SC Tenant Union All Member Gathering
SC Tenant Union's First Statewide All-Member Gathering
Tenants across South Carolina are organizing, fighting back, and winning! From mobile home parks to apartment complexes, public housing communities to statewide legislative campaigns, we're proving what becomes possible when tenants come together and build power.
This is a weekend for SCTU members from across the state to build relationships, celebrate our victories, learn from one another, and make important decisions about the future of our union.
We'll hear from tenant leaders organizing in communities across South Carolina, learn more about what it means to build a democratic, member-led union, and vote on the bylaws and proposals that will help guide our work moving forward.
And because building a union is also about building community, we'll make time for good food, music, art, fellowship, and fun!
What to Expect
Friday, November 6, 3:00-7:00 PM
Registration opens at 3 PM; program starts at 4 pm
Coming Together & Celebrating Our Union
We'll kick off the weekend by welcoming members, sharing the State of Our Union, enjoying a meal together, and making signs and banners as we prepare to take our collective power into the streets!
Saturday, November 7, 10:00 AM - 7PM Evening
Building Our Union & Taking Action
Saturday is our big day of union business! We'll hear updates from tenant unions across the state, explore what makes us a union, and exercise our collective decision-making power. Members will review and vote on SCTU's bylaws and consider proposals that will shape our future.
In the afternoon, we'll take our power into the streets for a tenant rally and press conference, followed by an evening of food and fun.
Sunday, November 8th, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM
Rest, Care & Community
Before heading home, members are invited to enjoy a relaxed morning with brunch, yoga, art, and other care activities. Sunday's activities are optional.
Who Should Attend?
All SCTU members are encouraged to attend! Whether you've been organizing for years or recently joined the union, this gathering is an opportunity to connect with tenants across South Carolina and help shape the future of our movement.
Not a member yet? We welcome tenants interested in learning more about SCTU and building tenant power. You can learn about membership and how to get involved during the gathering.
Please note: Voting on union business is reserved for eligible SCTU members.
Location
Most of the weekend will be at the location listed. The tenant rally and press conference will be at a location that is a couple of miles away. Additional details will be shared with registered attendees.
Meals, Transportation & Accessibility
We want our members to be able to participate fully, regardless of where they live or what resources they have.
Meals will be provided throughout the gathering.
Limited lodging and transportation assistance may be available to members traveling from outside the Charleston area.
We'll work with attendees to accommodate accessibility needs.
You can let us know what support you need when you register.
Help us plan by registering for the gathering and letting us know which days you'll attend.
When tenants fight, we win!
Charleston Stop NextEra SC Community Meeting
Tricounty Tenant Union in partnership with SC Appleseed, Charleston BLM, Charleston Climate Coalition, and Charleston Action Network invite you to a community meeting to discuss the NextEra/ Dominion Merger and learn ways to get involved in the fight to stop it. NextEra, a Florida based utlitiy company wants to buy out Dominion Energy. NextEra has track record of bad business practices, high rates of disconnections, and rate increases that could place a great amount of burden on South Carolinians. SC has kicked NextEra out before and we need to do it again.
6:00pm Meal served
6:30pm Meeting starts
Organizing Conversations for Neighbors Organizing Neighbors
Every strong tenant union starts with conversations between neighbors. But how do we turn conversations about problems into opportunities to build collective power?
Organizing isn't about having all the answers. It's about building relationships, finding common ground, and helping people recognize the power they have when they act together.
Join SC Tenant Union for a virtual training on Organizing Conversations, where we'll practice how to have meaningful conversations that move neighbors toward organizing together.
We'll cover how to:
Build relationships with your neighbors.
Ask good questions and listen for the issues people care about.
Help tenants connect their individual struggles to shared problems.
Move conversations from anger and frustration toward hope and collective action.
Make clear asks that help people take the next step in building their union.
This will be an interactive training with examples, practice conversations, and opportunities to build your confidence talking with neighbors.
Who should attend?
Tenant leaders, organizing committee members, and anyone working to organize tenants in their building, neighborhood, or community. No organizing experience is required!
October Cola Tenant Union Monthly Meeting
Tri-County Tenants is a union created and led by everyday tenants living in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to collectively address issues tenants in our area are facing. Through community organizing, education, and advocacy, Tri-County Tenants builds tenant power to assert our rights, demand accountability from landlords and policymakers, and improve our material conditions as tenants.
SCTU Mega Canvass (Conway, SC)
Oceanside Landing tenants are organizing for fair rents, fair leases, and a real voice in decisions that affect their homes. Check out their full story here! Now, we are reaching out to residents living in another Cobblestone-owned community to learn about their experiences and invite them to organize alongside us.
We need union members and community supporters to help us knock doors and have conversations with these residents.
No canvassing experience is required! SC Tenant Union will provide training, materials, and travel support, such as gas cards or a ride.
We will hold a group virtual training session for canvassers on Wed., Oct. 21st at 6:00. Attendees can join from home or join an in-person group session at an OLTU leader's home (address TBA).
RSVP to stay up to date on canvassing details and reminders.
Tri-County Tenant Union VIRTUAL Monthly Meeting
Tri-County Tenants is a union created and led by everyday tenants living in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to collectively address issues tenants in our area are facing. Through community organizing, education, and advocacy, Tri-County Tenants builds tenant power to assert our rights, demand accountability from landlords and policymakers, and improve our material conditions as tenants.
Canvassing 101: Building Tenant Power at the Door
Are you trying to organize tenants in your apartment complex, mobile home park, or neighborhood? Want to get more of your neighbors involved but aren't sure how to start those conversations?
Join SC Tenant Union for a virtual, hands-on canvassing training designed for tenants who are organizing their properties and building collective power.
We'll cover how to:
Have effective organizing conversations: Learn how to listen, ask good questions, and connect with your neighbors around shared issues.
Move people into action: Turn conversations into commitments and invite neighbors to take the next step toward organizing together.
Track conversations and follow up: Keep organizing relationships growing after you leave someone's doorstep.
Practice your skills: Work through real-life canvassing scenarios and build confidence talking with your neighbors.
Whether you're just getting started or already knocking doors, this training will help you strengthen your organizing skills and build a plan to reach more tenants.
No canvassing experience is required! Come ready to participate, practice, and learn alongside other tenant organizers across South Carolina.
What to expect: This is an interactive virtual training with demonstrations, group discussion, and hands-on practice. For the best experience, we encourage participants to join from a computer in a space where they can participate in conversations.
SC Tenants Member Orientation
SC Tenants is a multi-racial, working-class organization dedicated to building tenant power.
If you've recently joined, want to learn how we've grown in the past year, or just want to welcome your neighbors into the union -- join us for this online orientation session!
SC Tenant Union Member Orientation is a space to:
learn what we’re fighting for this legislative session,
understand how eviction sealing fits into the larger fight for housing justice,
hear how our union is structured and how decisions are made,
find real ways to plug in — no matter your capacity
Open to all tenants across South Carolina. This is a fully virtual event.
Cola Tenant Union Monthly Meeting
Tri-County Tenants is a union created and led by everyday tenants living in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to collectively address issues tenants in our area are facing. Through community organizing, education, and advocacy, Tri-County Tenants builds tenant power to assert our rights, demand accountability from landlords and policymakers, and improve our material conditions as tenants.
Tri-County Tenant Union Monthly Meeting
Tri-County Tenants is a union created and led by everyday tenants living in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to collectively address issues tenants in our area are facing. Through community organizing, education, and advocacy, Tri-County Tenants builds tenant power to assert our rights, demand accountability from landlords and policymakers, and improve our material conditions as tenants.
Power Org H4270 Campaign Debrief
This gathering is a space for power organizations from across South Carolina to come together, reflect on the campaign, and learn from one another. We’ll take time to celebrate what we accomplished, name what we learned, and honestly assess what worked, what didn’t, and what we might do differently moving forward.
Just as importantly, this is an opportunity to deepen relationships across organizations, identify shared lessons and opportunities, and explore what continued partnership and collaboration could look like. We’re making space not just to debrief the campaign, but to imagine what we can build together next.
https://sc-tenant-union.solidarity.tech/power-org-h4270-campaign-debrief
Cobblestone Canvass Training
Oceanside Landing tenants are organizing for fair rents, a fair lease, and a real voice in the decisions affecting their homes. Now, we are reaching out to residents living in another Cobblestone-owned community to learn about their experiences and invite them to organize alongside us.
We need union members and community supporters to help us knock doors and have conversations with these residents. No canvassing experience is required! SC Tenant Union will provide training, materials, and support.
We will hold a group virtual training session for canvassers on Wed., September 16th at 6:00. Attendees can join from home or join an in-person group session at an SCTU leader's home (address TBA). Canvassers will meet in Murrell’s Inlet on Sunday, Sept. 20th at 12:45 and carpool to the other Cobblestone property in Conway.
RSVP to stay up to date on canvassing information and reminders.
SC Tenants Member Orientation
SC Tenants is a multi-racial, working-class organization dedicated to building tenant power.
If you've recently joined, want to learn how we've grown in the past year, or just want to welcome your neighbors into the union -- join us for this online orientation session!
SC Tenant Union Member Orientation is a space to:
learn what we’re fighting for this legislative session,
understand how eviction sealing fits into the larger fight for housing justice,
hear how our union is structured and how decisions are made,
find real ways to plug in — no matter your capacity
Open to all tenants across South Carolina. This is a fully virtual event.
Tri-County Tenant Union Monthly Meeting
Tri-County Tenants is a union created and led by everyday tenants living in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to collectively address issues tenants in our area are facing. Through community organizing, education, and advocacy, Tri-County Tenants builds tenant power to assert our rights, demand accountability from landlords and policymakers, and improve our material conditions as tenants.
Cola Tenant Union Monthly Meeting
Tri-County Tenants is a union created and led by everyday tenants living in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to collectively address issues tenants in our area are facing. Through community organizing, education, and advocacy, Tri-County Tenants builds tenant power to assert our rights, demand accountability from landlords and policymakers, and improve our material conditions as tenants.
SC Tenants Member Orientation
SC Tenants is a multi-racial, working-class organization dedicated to building tenant power.
If you've recently joined, want to learn how we've grown in the past year, or just want to welcome your neighbors into the union -- join us for this online orientation session!
SC Tenant Union Member Orientation is a space to:
learn what we’re fighting for this legislative session,
understand how eviction sealing fits into the larger fight for housing justice,
hear how our union is structured and how decisions are made,
find real ways to plug in — no matter your capacity
Open to all tenants across South Carolina. This is a fully virtual event.
SCTU Membership Campaign Meeting
Join the SC Tenant Union Membership Campaign Meeting!
We're building toward a historic milestone—our first-ever in-person All Member Convention—and we need every tenant leader, member, and supporter to help make it a success.
These Membership Campaign Meetings are where we'll organize to grow our union, reach new tenants across South Carolina, and ensure our convention brings together a powerful, representative membership ready to shape the future of our movement.
Together, we'll:
Launch and coordinate our membership recruitment campaign
Set outreach goals and make plans to connect with tenants across the state
Practice relational organizing and invite new members into the union
Share updates about the All Member Convention and opportunities to participate
Identify leaders, volunteers, and teams to help build a strong and welcoming convention
Strengthen our collective power by growing a tenant union led by those most impacted
Every conversation, every new member, and every relationship we build brings us closer to a stronger tenant movement. Our first All Member Convention will be a chance to celebrate our victories, elect and develop leadership, set our priorities together, and deepen our commitment to fighting for housing justice across South Carolina.
Whether you've been organizing with us for years or are just getting involved, this is your opportunity to help build the union from the ground up.
Join us as we grow our membership, strengthen our movement, and prepare for a historic gathering of tenant leaders from across South Carolina.
Cola Tenant Union Monthly Meeting
Tri-County Tenants is a union created and led by everyday tenants living in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to collectively address issues tenants in our area are facing. Through community organizing, education, and advocacy, Tri-County Tenants builds tenant power to assert our rights, demand accountability from landlords and policymakers, and improve our material conditions as tenants.
SC Tenant Union - All Member Meeting
SC Tenant Union All Member Meeting! Join tenants from across South Carolina to hear updates from our local tenant unions taking on fighting campaigns against the landlord class — and to strategize about how we continue to build our power as a statewide force for tenant rights!
SC Tenants Member Orientation
SC Tenants is a multi-racial, working-class organization dedicated to building tenant power.
If you've recently joined, want to learn how we've grown in the past year, or just want to welcome your neighbors into the union -- join us for this online orientation session!
SC Tenant Union Member Orientation is a space to:
learn what we’re fighting for this legislative session,
understand how eviction sealing fits into the larger fight for housing justice,
hear how our union is structured and how decisions are made,
find real ways to plug in — no matter your capacity
Open to all tenants across South Carolina. This is a fully virtual event.
Tri-County Tenant Union Monthly Meeting
Tri-County Tenants is a union created and led by everyday tenants living in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to collectively address issues tenants in our area are facing. Through community organizing, education, and advocacy, Tri-County Tenants builds tenant power to assert our rights, demand accountability from landlords and policymakers, and improve our material conditions as tenants.
SC Tenants Member Orientation
SC Tenants is a multi-racial, working-class organization dedicated to building tenant power.
If you've recently joined, want to learn how we've grown in the past year, or just want to welcome your neighbors into the union -- join us for this online orientation session!
SC Tenant Union Member Orientation is a space to:
learn what we’re fighting for this legislative session,
understand how eviction sealing fits into the larger fight for housing justice,
hear how our union is structured and how decisions are made,
find real ways to plug in — no matter your capacity
Open to all tenants across South Carolina. This is a fully virtual event.
Tri-County Tenant Union Monthly Meeting
Tri-County Tenants is a union created and led by everyday tenants living in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to collectively address issues tenants in our area are facing. Through community organizing, education, and advocacy, Tri-County Tenants builds tenant power to assert our rights, demand accountability from landlords and policymakers, and improve our material conditions as tenants.
Public Housing Tenants Meeting
OPEN TO ALL TENANTS IN CHARLESTON PUBLIC HOUSING.
Join the Downtown Public Housing Tenant Union for a chance to meet your neighbors, share your experiences, and build the collective power needed to demand real change in our community.
For too long, tenants in Charleston Public Housing have faced unsafe living conditions, rising utility bills, and a lack of transparency in redevelopment plans that threaten to displace us from the homes and community we’ve built. But the time for isolation is over. Together, we are stronger than the landlords, city and politicians who profit from our struggles.
Dinner will be provided for in-person attendees. Childcare and gas gift cards are available upon request when RSVPing.
SC Tenants Member Orientation
SC Tenants is a multi-racial, working-class organization dedicated to building tenant power.
If you've recently joined, want to learn how we've grown in the past year, or just want to welcome your neighbors into the union -- join us for this online orientation session!
SC Tenant Union Member Orientation is a space to:
learn what we’re fighting for this legislative session,
understand how eviction sealing fits into the larger fight for housing justice,
hear how our union is structured and how decisions are made,
find real ways to plug in — no matter your capacity
Open to all tenants across South Carolina. This is a fully virtual event.
Columbia Tenant Meeting
OPEN TO ALL TENANTS IN RICHLAND AND LEXINGTON COUNTIES, SC.
The Columbia Tenant Union is kicking off our first meeting of the year on April 30 from 6:30 PM –7:30 PM — and we’re inviting renters, neighbors, and housing justice supporters from across the Columbia area to join us.
Columbia tenants deserve safe, stable, and affordable housing. This meeting is about grounding ourselves in the moment we’re in — and getting serious about building the power we need to change it.
Whether you’re a long-time organizer or just curious about your rights as a renter, this space is for you.
Let’s build together.
Public Housing Canvass Day
Hosted by: Tri-County Tenant Union
Join us for a powerful day of door-to-door outreach in Charleston, SC. We’ll be talking with tenants about the fight to demand better conditions in Charleston public housing and to ensure that current public housing tenants have a say in how their housing is redeveloped.
Whether you’ve canvassed a hundred times or never before, this is your chance to build power where it matters most — at the doors, with the people.
What to Expect:
Canvass training & team assignments led by local Tricounty Tenant Union leaders
Door-to-door outreach across downtown housing projects
Real conversations about eviction, tenant rights, and collective power
Snacks, water, and good vibes to keep you going
Opportunities to share stories and invite neighbors to join the union
The fate of public housing affects all of us, whether we live there or not - RSVP TODAY!
Tri-County Tenant Union Monthly Meeting
Tri-County Tenants is a union created and led by everyday tenants living in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to collectively address issues tenants in our area are facing. Through community organizing, education, and advocacy, Tri-County Tenants builds tenant power to assert our rights, demand accountability from landlords and policymakers, and improve our material conditions as tenants.
Columbia Tenant Brunch Meeting
OPEN TO ALL TENANTS IN RICHLAND AND LEXINGTON COUNTIES, SC.
The Columbia Tenant Union is kicking off our first meeting of the year on April 18 from 11:00 AM –1:00 PM — and we’re inviting renters, neighbors, and housing justice supporters from across the Columbia area to join us.
Columbia tenants deserve safe, stable, and affordable housing. This meeting is about grounding ourselves in the moment we’re in — and getting serious about building the power we need to change it.
Whether you’re a long-time organizer or just curious about your rights as a renter, this space is for you.
Let’s build together.
Public Housing Tenants Meeting
OPEN TO ALL TENANTS IN CHARLESTON PUBLIC HOUSING.
Join the Downtown Public Housing Tenant Union for a chance to meet your neighbors, share your experiences, and build the collective power needed to demand real change in our community.
For too long, tenants in Charleston Public Housing have faced unsafe living conditions, rising utility bills, and a lack of transparency in redevelopment plans that threaten to displace us from the homes and community we’ve built. But the time for isolation is over. Together, we are stronger than the landlords, city and politicians who profit from our struggles.
Dinner will be provided for in-person attendees. Childcare and gas gift cards are available upon request when RSVPing.