Service workers, domestic workers and other low-paid workers can’t win without organization. ESWA 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.

ESWA 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.

Join ESWA’s publication staff! You can learn – or help teach – how to produce the next issue of ESWA’s newspaper, the New Jersey 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 ESWA!

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

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

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