Welcome to MWA
What is MWA
Mid-Ohio Workers Association (MWA) is a free and voluntary, unincorporated membership association, uniting service workers, temporary workers and others who are low income since 2001. We are 100% volunteer run and independent of government funding. MWA seeks to eradicate the poverty status of this majority segment of the workforce, and achieve a means to determine our own collective destiny.
What Our Members Face
Who are MWA members
MWA’s members are the backbone of the economy: we build and clean homes and office buildings, work in warehouses and fulfillment centers, food service and healthcare, we care for children and the elderly, and do a variety of other vital jobs including hotel and office maintenance, yet often receive wages that don’t cover survival needs for a family. 30% of Central Ohioans don’t earn enough to afford food, rent and utilities.
Positive Impact
How we survive to organize
Since 2001, MWA members and volunteers have built an 11-point self-help, membership benefit program including emergency and supplemental food, preventive medical care, non-emergency dental care, legal advice, and much more. These benefits respond to our members’ immediate survival needs to keep us on our feet while we organize to gain control over our living and working conditions, and bring about an end to poverty once and for all.
Get involved
Put Yourself On the Map with MWA!
On-the-job training is provided in all basic organizing skills. No prior experience is necessary — just a willingness to learn and daring to care about the future of our communities. Refuse to stand by as more workers are driven into lives of desperation. A movement for change is growing — be a part of making it happen! YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Illustration by Sally Wern Comport