Western Service Workers Association
CAMPAIGNS
JANUARY - MARCH
Winter Survival Campaign
Statistically, WSWA’s budget-saving Winter Survival Campaign saves at least six lives each winter when our members mobilize to aid one another in preventing disasters, such as house fires caused by unsafe heating methods or fatalities from untreated illness, inadequate nutrition and shelter. Every year since our founding in 1977, we have been distributing food to hundreds of membership families in low-income communities and keeping members housed through individual advocacy.
AUGUST - SEPTEMBER
Back-to-School Campaign
The expenses low-income working parents face for back-to-school clothes and supplies, medical exams for school entry and immunizations can break an already over-stretched budget. WSWA’s Back-to-School clothing and supply distribution can save WSWA membership families up to $500 – money that can be used to pay for rent, utilities, food and medicines these families will otherwise be forced to do without.
OCTOBER
Children’s Safe & Sane Halloween Party
WSWA's annual Children's Safe and Sane Halloween Party and chaperoned Trick-or-Treat for Service Workers is the first in a series of events organized by and for low-income workers and their families through the holiday season. Join the Halloween festivities! You can:
• Volunteer to coordinate games at the Halloween Party
• Assist on the Trick-or-Treat for Service Workers
• Decorate for the event
• Host a Trick-or-Treat for Service Workers in your neighborhood
NOVEMBER - DECEMBER
Holiday Food Basket Distributions and Family Holiday Party
WSWA volunteers have created budget-saving programs for members to help other members meet seasonal needs such as a Thanksgiving Food Basket Distribution and Holiday Food Basket Distribution, holiday toy distributions to parents for their private family gift giving to their children and a membership Family Holiday Party every December.
Campaign for Affordable Electricity
As thousands of low-income workers face electricity shutoffs each month, for-profit investor-owned utilities reap enormous profits. WSWA members have mobilized to the California Public Utilities Commission hearings to fight for affordable energy, an end to shutoffs and an end to utility profiteering at the working poor’s expense.
Campaign for Affordable Water
WSWA members have mobilized to numerous San Diego City Council hearings, demanding affordable and clean water for all, and succeeded in stopping water shutoffs for those unable to pay the increasing cost of water. Members also saved thousands of dollars off of the City’s proposed rate hikes through their advocacy.
