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MEMBERSHIP

ESWA provides workers a chance to speak for themselves

No other interest save that of the workers’ themselves is served

JOIN

FIGHT

WIN!

JOIN — FIGHT — WIN! —

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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.

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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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Expand the
Monroe County Workers Benefit Council

The Monroe County 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 Monroe County.

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Become a Delegate

As part of the WBC, members can take on a 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.

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman, a New York resident and frequent visitor to Rochester, is quoted next to her photograph: "I was a conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years....I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."