by Southern Workers Assembly | Nov 11, 2021 | Amazon, Statement
In late 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama contacted the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) to begin a historic organizing campaign at the facility. In January 2021, the majority Black...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Aug 19, 2021 | Statement
Two significant labor actions have taken place in the South this year – both were in Alabama. The union organizing campaign at the Amazon plant in Bessemer and the mineworkers strike in Brookwood. The South is a critical battleground for labor and the fight for...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Jul 8, 2021 | News
After three years of receiving zero pay raises and working 16 months through a global pandemic with no recognition or hazard pay, city workers in Elizabeth City, N.C., staged a two-day work stoppage June 29-30. The Black-majority workers in the city’s Public Works and...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Apr 22, 2021 | Statement
The following solidarity statement, issued on behalf of the Southern Workers Assembly, was written by Al Long, a retired IT worker and SWA member in Norfolk, VA. Sisters and Brothers of UAW 2069, The Southern Workers Assembly stands in solidarity with your strike...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Apr 9, 2021 | Amazon, Statement
In spite of the vote count, important developments have resulted from the Bessemer Amazon workers’ campaign. We applaud the Alabama Amazon workers who took on the world’s second largest corporation drawing thousands of activists into a long-over-due workers’ rights...
