Tuesdays and Sundays

Twice per week WSWA members run supplemental food distributions from the WSWA Benefit Office and their homes to other members. We prioritize fresh, organic and healthy food items and always need donations, volunteer drivers and other assistance.

One Wednesday per month 2:30pm-6:30pm

Volunteer medical professionals conduct monthly general medical sessions in their private medical offices, providing preventive care to WSWA members who lack access. Lay advocates take notes for WSWA members and assist with follow up, organize donated lab work and learn how to coordinate the medical sessions. Volunteer medical doctors and other medical professionals are also urgently needed.

One Wednesday per month 6pm-10pm

Legal Advice is provided to requesting WSWA members privately with a volunteer attorney, accompanied by a volunteer lay advocate to assist with the next steps of the attorney’s advice. Lay advocates help on cases ranging from stolen wages to evictions. Advocates and volunteer attorneys are always needed.

Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays

WSWA’s donated Benefit Office space is located behind the Watsonville Habitat for Humanity. Volunteers assist sorting and organizing clothing, greeting members as they arrive and doing benefit intakes for other types of member benefit requests.

Twice per month

Volunteer optometrists hold twice monthly optical sessions with the help of volunteer advocates. Advocates take notes on appointments where WSWA members receive eye exams and glasses free of charge. Advocates also assist members in gaining donated optical surgeries. Volunteers are also needed to coordinate the optical sessions, do follow up and translate from Spanish to English. Volunteer optical specialists are also needed.

Tuesdays 1pm to 5pm

Low-paid service, domestic and farm workers can’t win without organization. WSWA teaches the skill of advocacy. You can learn how to fight to keep a member’s lights on, how to expunge a medical bill, how to fight to restore home care for the elderly, blind or disabled members.

Saturdays 10am to 4pm

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.

Every other Sunday, July through September

Volunteers and WSWA members reach 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.

Fridays 3pm to 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!

Fridays 1pm to 7pm

Volunteers set up information tables in front of grocery stores, local community events and other locations to promote WSWA so that others can join our cause. This is one way WSWA enlists new friends and participants to come in and make a difference. Please call if you can volunteer or if you know of a location where WSWA can set up a table.

Wednesdays 1pm to 3pm

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 mass mailing of WSWA’s membership newspaper and Sponsors Guide.

Mondays and Wednesdays 6pm to 9pm

Volunteers are essential to all of WSWA’s activities year-round. Volunteers conduct group telephone sessions to re-contact interested individuals met on community outreach and word-of-mouth about participating with WSWA’s organizing activities scheduled each week.