Illustration of workers on a bridge, standing in a line carrying bricks and tools. The worker in front of the line is setting his brick down to continue building the bridge.
Illustration of workers on a bridge, standing in a line carrying bricks and tools. The worker in front of the line is setting his brick down to continue building the bridge.

Illustration by Raúl Colón

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In Unity There is Strength

MEMBERSHIP

Join as an ESWA Member

Membership is open to anyone who is, has been, or in the future may be employed in service work. We understand that in order to thrive, we have to unite and cannot leave any worker behind. Many ESWA members work as domestic and maintenance workers, food service and retail workers, nurses aides and hotel workers, warehouse and food processing workers, and other occupations. ESWA members also include workers who are between jobs, retired or disabled. Join ESWA as we build collective solutions to the poverty conditions impacting tens of thousands of workers in the Greater Boston area.

ESWA PROVIDES WORKERS A CHANCE TO SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
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NO OTHER INTEREST SAVE THAT OF THE WORKERS THEMSELVES IS SERVED

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Join as a Member

Membership is open to anyone who is, has been, or in the future may be employed in service work or other types of low-paid work — domestic work, temporary work or work done as an independent contractor.

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Help Run the Self-help Membership Benefit Program

Members are eligible to participate in a free-of-charge Benefit Program, designed by members for members. As a self-help organization, members participate in the building, functioning and oversight of the Benefit Program.

Membership By the Numbers

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100s

39k+

Benefits available

Of ways to participate

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Members signed

Expand the Boston Workers Benefit Council

The Boston Workers Benefit Council (WBC) is a body of members who take on leadership roles in the organization. Members meet to coordinate the actions ESWA will take toward problems and needs expressed by the Council members and how the Benefit Program will grow in the interests of working people in the Greater Boston area.

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Host a Housemeeting

Interested members host membership housemeetings in their homes or yards and invite newly signed members and other neighbors, family and friends to learn about ESWA.

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Become a Delegate

As part of the WBC, members can take on the role as a delegate to bring the concerns of other members working in the same industry, worksite or living in the same neighborhood to the WBC meetings.

ESWA member passionately speaks and gesticulates as other members listen at a meeting.
Illustration of a woman standing straight with her arms akimbo.
Illustration of a woman standing straight with her arms akimbo.

Illustration by Norman Green