VOLUNTEER

Sundays

WESTERN SERVICE WORKERS ASSOCIATION (WSWA) members may apply to the association’s budget-saving Benefit Plan II program and participate in weekly free-of-charge supplemental food distributions featuring fresh organic produce and other nutritional foods. Volunteers are needed year-round to pick up, sort, box and distribute food to enrolled members.

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Volunteer physicians and registered nurses conduct preventive general medical sessions, checking vital signs and medical histories, providing routine health screenings and exams, including vision care, assisted by a certified WSWA lay medical advocate. More volunteer medical professionals and advocates are needed!

Monthly

Volunteer attorneys present general legal information in group settings as well as private legal advice consultations, accompanied by a WSWA lay advocate. Topics include wage theft, evictions, discrimination and predatory lending. WSWA needs more volunteer attorneys, legal advocates and interpreters.

Mondays 6 - 9pm
Wednesdays 9am - 2pm

Service workers, domestic workers and other low-paid workers can’t win without organization. WSWA teaches the skill of advocacy. You can learn how to prevent utility shutoffs or restore utility service, how to expunge medical debt, and fight benefit denials for elderly, blind or disabled members.

Saturdays 9am - 5pm

WSWA membership canvasses are the lifeblood of our grassroots service worker organizing drive. Alone and isolated we cannot achieve anything; united we can win! Volunteers canvass door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods where members and potential members live, to build organization where it’s needed the most.

Sundays 1-5pm

Join WSWA's publication staff! You can learn – or help teach – how to produce the next issue of WSWA's newspaper, the California Service Worker and our seasonal Sponsors Guide to tell the truth about low-income workers organizing for economic justice. We also need volunteers to design flyers. Call WSWA!

July - September: Call to schedule

Volunteers and WSWA members were invited by migrant workers living on farm labor camps to bring the benefit of organization, community connection and material aid, such as food, clothing, sun protection and cooling supplies to their families. Call WSWA to join us!

Monthly

Volunteer dentists see members in their offices free of charge to provide non-emergency preventive and corrective care.

Mondays & Wednesdays 6-9pm

Volunteer teachers lead Survival English Classes that provide WSWA members education from the perspective of being able to communicate to their employers, landlords and others, as well as help build organization to address the cause of our collective problems.

Weekly

Volunteers assist sorting and organizing clothing, doing benefit intakes and assisting members in filling their clothing requests.

Fridays 11am - 7pm
Sundays 9am - 2pm

Volunteers set up information tables in front of grocery stores, at community events, churches, temples and other venues to promote WSWA so that others can join our cause. WSWA also offers speakers to enlist new friends and participants to come in and make a difference. Please call if you can volunteer or if you can host a WSWA information table and/or speaker.

Tuesdays 9am - 2pm

Volunteers prepare and send letters about our current campaigns to people who have joined WSWA and have expressed an interest in volunteering or supporting WSWA. We need volunteers to help with the daily letter mailouts as well as to assist with the bulk mailing of WSWA’s membership newspaper and Sponsors Guide.

Mondays & Wednesdays 6 - 9pm

Volunteers are essential to all of WSWA’s activities year-round. Volunteers conduct group telephone sessions to re-contact interested individuals met on speaking engagements, literature tables, community canvasses and by word-of-mouth referrals about participating with WSWA’s organizing activities 365 days a year.