Chester Worker Empowerment Center

12/11/2025

We look forward to seeing you Thursday evening for our first Christmas celebration!

12/06/2025

12/01/2025

We look forward to celebrating Workers and the work of the Chester Worker Empowerment Center next week! Let us know you are planning to attend. Register today at https://www.cwecsc.org/events.

11/06/2025

We look forward to seeing you Saturday at the SC Building & Construction Trades Career Fair!

📅 Date: November 8, 2025
⏰ Time: 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
📍 Location: Chester State Park

Representatives from top trade unions including Boilermakers, Sheet Metal Workers, Teamsters, IBEW, Pipefitters, Ironworkers, and more! 🔥⚡💪

✅️Learn about apprenticeship programs!
✅️Explore high-paying, in-demand careers!
✅️Network with industry professionals!

Free to attend – Open to the public - Family Friendly Event

🍔PLUS: Enjoy a FREE Cookout

🎟We will cover your admission to Chester State Park! The weather is going to be great! Arrive early or stay late and enjoy all the 523 acre park has to offer — trails, fishing or boating on the 160 acre lake, disc golf, and beautiful scenery.

Tag a friend and ask them to meet you there!

10/18/2025

Stop by and see us at Hilarity!

10/11/2025

Come see us at the Fort Lawn Community Center, Fall Festival!

Fall Festival kick-off starts tonight at 7:00!

10/10/2025

🔧👷‍♀️ Ready to start a rewarding career?
Join us at the Building & Construction Trades Career Fair! 💼🏗️

📅 Date: November 8, 2025
⏰ Time: 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
📍 Location: Chester State Park

Meet representatives from top trade unions like the Boilermakers, Sheet Metal Workers, Teamsters, IBEW, Pipefitters, Ironworkers, and more! 🔥⚡💪

✅️Learn about apprenticeship programs!
✅️Explore high-paying, in-demand careers!
✅️Network with industry professionals!

Free to attend – Open to the public - Family Friendly Event

🍔PLUS: Enjoy a FREE Cookout for All Trade Professionals & Attendees! Food, drinks, and good conversation — courtesy of our event sponsors SC BUILDING TRADES, SC AFL-CIO, SMART LOCAL 399, CHESTER WORKER EMPOWERMENT CENTER, AND MORE.

🎟We will cover your admission to Chester State Park!

Arrive early or stay late and enjoy all the 523 acre park has to offer — trails, fishing or boating on the 160 acre lake, disc golf, and beautiful scenery!

📃Bring your resume and questions!

🙌Bottom Line: If you’re looking for a reliable career path with great pay, strong benefits, and a future you can build with your own hands, this event is your gateway! Reserve your spot by registering at www.cwecsc.org or by following the link at the QR code! Contact Jason Myers at 803-670-6591 for more information.

We educate, organize and empower workers in Chester and surrounding communities in Chester, York, Lancaster, Fairfield, and Union Counties in South Carolina.

09/11/2025

"We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

Unity is survival. Dr. King’s urgent choice: collaboration or collective catastrophe. The same humanity that divides us must now bind us, or we will share a common grave.