The Working Families Party (WFP) is a left-wing political party based in Brooklyn, New York. Using New York’s electoral fusion voting system that allows multiple parties to nominate candidates and pool votes cast, the WFP uses its endorsement and ballot line to pressure Democratic Party candidates to take union-friendly stands on economic issues. The party is heavily funded by labor unions, and union officials are reported to sit on WFP’s board. The WFP has close ties to various left-wing groups. It shares office space with New York Communities for Change and for a period ran an in-house data firm, Data and Field Services.5 For his part, Sanders praised WFP as “the closest thing there is to a political party that believes in my vision of democratic socialism.”16
New York
Since the 1998 New York gubernatorial election, the Working Families Party (WFP) has had official party status and a guaranteed ballot line for elections in the state. The party typically co-endorses the Democratic nominee in general elections, after pushing a left-wing Democrat in the primary election. 30
Related Organizations
Also see Working Families Power (Nonprofit)
The Working Families Party (WFP) runs a 501(c)(4) lobbying and advocacy group Working Families Power, which was previously known as the Working Families Organization (WFO). While he was national director of the WFP, Dan Cantor also served as executive director of Working Families Power. 31 as have the Proteus Action League32 and Citizen Action of New York.33
The WFP’s Brooklyn headquarters (1 Metrotech Center, 11th Floor) are shared with a number of union-aligned left-wing groups. New York Communities for Change (NYCC), a labor organizing group that emerged from the collapse of the national ACORN network, has very close ties to the WFP. The office space is also shared with the Mutual Housing Association of New York, a public housing developer that has been identified as another ACORN successor group.16
Sochie Nnaemeka is the New York state director of the WFP. Appointed to the position in 2019, she had previously served as the director of emerging organizing and leadership at the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD). In May 2023, it was announced she would be leaving her position with the party. 0){
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