News & Updates
Strategic Role of Black Labor
The Southern Workers Assembly is republishing this piece by our late co-founder, Saladin Muhammad, originally published in May 2006. The system of national oppression is anchored by African-American national oppression; not because it was the first experience of...
Southern Worker School charts course for power
Southern politicians have gone out of their way in word and action to make clear they stand on the side of big business and racism as they’ve recently lamented that the “Alabama [ie - Southern] model for success is under attack” and vowing to “fight unions to the...
Charlotte, Triangle Central Labor Council Resolutions in Support of a Ceasefire
The Southern Workers Assembly is re-publishing and sharing the following resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the Israeli/U.S. war on Palestine, and encouraging other workers and unions to share these statements widely. We encourage other central labor councils,...
Southern Worker School advances consciousness, organization, collective action heading into 2024
“This convening is called a worker school, but in many ways it’s really an organizing conference,” Ajamu Dillahunt, a member of the SWA Coordinating Committee and Black Workers for Justice, addressed the crowd during the opening session of the Fall 2023 Southern...
Ceasefire Now! Money for workers’ needs, not for bombing Palestine!
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. noted that “war is the enemy of poor and working people,” and that the triple evils of racism, poverty, and militarism were to blame for the suffering of workers in the United States. The Southern Workers Assembly stands in full solidarity...
Organize, Fight, Win – Shop floor struggle at Amazon
“Why don’t we all go ask?” “What?” “Why don’t we all go? Management can brush it off if it’s just you, but if we all go they can’t ignore that.” It’s a small thing really, a co-worker requesting a religious accommodation that won’t cost the company much money, but...
It’s about power: Southern Worker School charts path for building workers movement in the U.S. South
“We heard from the rail workers. We heard from the truckers. We’ve got the longshoremen in the house, too,” said Leonard Riley, a longshore worker with the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 1422 and member of the SWA Coordinating Committee,...
Starting Sept 5: Webinar series on Worker Power Program
The Southern Workers Assembly is excited to invite you to join an upcoming webinar series led by Communiversity, an educational partner of Black Workers for Justice, that will explore and discuss the nine points of the Southern Workers Power Program. The series begins...
Southern workers gather to build Workers Assembly movement
Under the slogan “Build the Workers Assembly Movement! Organize the South!,” nearly 80 workers from eight Southern states gathered in Durham, North Carolina for a Southern Workers Assembly Organizing School over the weekend of April 29 – May 1. Workers came to the...
The First Step is Often the Most Difficult – Statement on ALU Victory
All congratulations to the good workers who led the ALU to its Labor Board election victory in Staten Island New York. Yours is an inspiring example of rank and file worker self-organization to improve working conditions and change corporate policies. The SWA will...