ABOUT
Since our founding in 1988, Western Farm Workers Association (WFWA) has built a membership of more than 15,000 farm workers and other low-income workers throughout the Willamette Valley and beyond. Only through building strong organization can we gain control over our living and working conditions and reverse the policies that are killing and disabling low-income workers and their families.
WFWA’s uniquely successful method of Systemic Organizing enables anyone who dares to care and is willing to work to build an organization that unites low-income workers with students, professionals, small business owners and others concerned and affected by the economic problems we face.
WFWA members have built an 11-point, self-help benefit program of emergency food and clothing, legal advice, preventive medical care, a quarterly membership newspaper and more, while developing the organizational strength to fight and end the policies that drive up living costs and drive out living wages jobs.
Campaign for Affordable Water
WFWA members and their allies are leading a campaign to achieve affordable water and end water shutoffs plaguing low-income families in Washington County.
Campaign for Affordable Electricity
As thousands of low-income workers face electricity shutoffs each month, for-profit investor-owned utilities reap enormous profits. WFWA members have mobilized to Salem to fight for affordable energy, an end to shutoffs and to demand the Oregon Public Utilities Commission put an end to utility profiteering.
Campaign for Public Health
Nationwide cuts to public health have left agricultural workers more vulnerable to tuberculosis, extreme heat and pandemics. WFWA members have won victories holding the government accountable to the public health needs of low-income workers.
Our carbon footprint,
nearly nil.
Our organizing drive’s human impact, huge!
WFWA endorses the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Read the Northwest Farm Worker!
WFWA publishes a printed membership newspaper, Northwest Farm Worker, to tell the story to every WFWA member, volunteer, supporter and friend of what WFWA is doing. As WFWA grows in dimension and reaches out to more of the Willamette Valley and beyond, so does the Northwest Farm Worker.
Call 503-681-9399 or stop by to get the latest issue
Here until poverty isn’t!
WFWA’s Office Central
725 SE 7th Avenue
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Easy access using public transportation by bus or MAX light rail
WFWA’s Benefit Office
168 NE 8th Avenue
Hillsboro, OR 97124
Located at the Hillsboro United Methodist Church and open twice per month, call 503-681-9399 to ask about hours. Easy access using public transportation by bus or MAX light rail