United in Struggle

The East Van Workers Assembly is an organization of workers fighting for the economic and political power of the working class. The core objectives of EVWA are laid out in our Political Vision:

1. Organize and unite workers across industries.
2. Struggle to expand and democratize the workers’ movement.
3. Develop working class consciousness. 
4. Unite the economic struggles of workers in the union movement with a revolutionary political vision. 

Assembly Members are the foundation of our efforts to educate, organize, and mobilize for working class power! We encourage you to attend Assemblies and join us as a member.

Basic Membership Requirements:

1. Live and/or work in Greater Vancouver;
2. Have attended at least 2 monthly Assemblies (inclusive of the Assembly a prospective member applies for membership);
3. Pay annual membership fee (sliding scale beginning at $10) and/or register to pay monthly dues;
4. Unite with EVWA Political Vision and agree to abide by Membership Rights & Duties;
5. At least one of the following: currently working a proletarian job (i.e. wage work for a boss, no significant passive income), worked in the past year, retired, disabled/sick, unwaged house/care worker, unable to work for structural reasons beyond their control. 

Applicants who do not meet Requirement 5 can apply to join as Solidarity Members.

Membership Rights & Duties:

1. Members should strive to attend at least 6 monthly Assemblies per year. (Prohibitive work schedules and other unavoidable conflicts will not disqualify Members from joining or maintaining membership);
2. Participate in the political and organizational life of EVWA through democratic debate and struggle with the aim of building political unity amongst the Membership;
3. Work to ensure EVWA is free of harassment and discrimination for all Members and attendees; 
4. Have access to organizer training and political education through EVWA initiatives including, but not limited to, the Solidarity Worker Action Team (SWAT), picket line support, campaigns, investigation and agitation, and educational events;
5. Publicize EVWA, agitate with workers around its campaigns and political activities, and encourage workers to attend monthly Assemblies;
6. Strive to conduct investigation and agitation amongst workers in their workplaces, unions, and other places where workers can be found.

Solidarity Membership Requirements:

As an organization dedicated to building a revolutionary political current within the workers’ movement, the membership and priorities of EVWA must be based in and directed by the working class. In order to support this mission, however, EVWA also accepts applicants who meet Membership Requirements 1-4 but do not fall under any of the categories listed in Requirement 5. 

Petty bourgeois professionals (e.g. doctors, lawyers, professors, etc.), small business owners, non-working students, and other non-workers who wish to organize with EVWA and are committed to building worker power can join as Solidarity Members. Solidarity Members enjoy the same Rights & Duties as other EVWA Members, but are expected to pay dues of at least $20 per month (or $10 for students) to financially support the Assembly’s work.