My Ph.D. research is based on working with and for unionized houseworkers and caregivers in Sindihogar, Barcelona. Members of the union - the Sindis - are women of diverse origins and ages. Most of them live from domestic and care work, while others depend on a range of activities. The union´s lines of work join under housework and care-giving as overarching systems of oppression for women. Sindihogar is a community of diverse women who are not all like-minded. Sindis have fought military regimes, confronted the Sharia, have been prominent members of the Trotskyist movement in South America, and walked across deserts. Their experiences have reached a point where mutual support among women is welcome and necessary as most still struggle to regularize their stay as migrants. By adopting an activist role within Sindihogar, my fieldwork has been strongly grounded in the multiple ways the institution articulates external effects on their quotidian existence. Through IE I explore the union’s transition from a charismatic grassroots community to a bureaucratized institution. As COVID-19 served as a growth catalyst, the need for being capable of meeting the union member’s needs kept rising. Yet, Sindihogar continued its efforts to function without charging membership fees. The socio-economic model the union has been building in its 10 years of existence relies on a circular and feminist economy, now submerged by the sanitary crisis. Consequently, power relations with the State and its majority unions are also transforming. In fact, Sindihogar´s changing identity relies mainly on their independence and novelty as an exclusively female labor union in Spain.