People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) is a multi-racial organization of low-income workers and tenants that has been building economic and political power for working class people in San Francisco since 1997. POWER works to increase civic activism amongst working class people of color to advance economic and racial justice.

Over the past ten years POWER’s winning combination of community organizing, alliance-building, and leadership development has won significant benefits for our community. These accomplishments include winning free public transportation for all welfare recipients, creating a city-employment apprenticeship program and negotiating the nation’s most comprehensive living wage ordinance.