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WFWA

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Become a Member

Join as a member and add your voice to those of other low-income workers in the Sacramento Valley

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Join as a Volunteer

You can become a volunteer with WFWA and make a difference from your first day in

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WFWA has a four-decade history in the Sacramento Valley building an all-volunteer membership association of the area’s lowest-paid workers

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Find Our Office

WFWA’s office is located in the heart of the Sacramento Valley, easily accessible from multiple counties

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Here to Win, Here to Stay!

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Welcome!

WESTERN FARM WORKERS ASSOCIATION (WFWA) was founded in 1986 in the Sacramento Valley. We are a free and voluntary, unincorporated private membership association of farm workers, seasonal workers and others who are low income, uniting to end our poverty conditions. Our membership organizing drive reaches five counties and is steadily growing. We are 100% volunteer run and independent of government funding.

While it is the labor of farm workers that feeds the people of this country, too frequently they are unable to afford the very fruits of their labor, and lack organization to change the policies that impact their lives. That is why we built WFWA.

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Benefits

Build a benefit program with and for low-paid workers

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History

Learn more about WFWA’s history since 1986 in the Sacramento Valley

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Sustainability

Invest in 100% volunteer, sustainable organization

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California’s farms and ranches generate $60 billion a year in agricultural output. Sacramento Valley alone produces $5 billion in agricultural output, including 90% of California’s rice exports. The labor of WFWA’s members creates this wealth, yet farm workers are treated as second-class citizens.

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Yolo County produces $694 million in fruits, vegetables and nuts

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Sutter County produces $772 million in rice, walnuts, tomatoes, cling peaches and prunes

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Yuba County produces $257 million in rice, kiwis, walnuts, livestock and prunes/dried plums

Colusa County produces $553 million in almonds, rice and walnuts

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Get Involved

Become a Volunteer

Join WFWA as a volunteer and participate in eliminating the poverty facing hundreds of thousands of low-income workers in the Sacramento Valley.

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Membership Association

Join as a Member

Membership is open to anyone who is, has been or may in the future be employed in farm work or other types of employment unrecognized by the national labor laws. It is only through the constant efforts of the membership that WFWA will finally be able to end the brutal conditions that confront farm and seasonal workers living in the Sacramento Valley.

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Welcome

Learn More About WFWA

The rich history of WFWA represents decades of organizing experience. WFWA has organized victories in the Sacramento Valley by and for our membership of low-income workers and their allies.

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