by Southern Workers Assembly | Nov 11, 2024 | News
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...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Sep 27, 2024 | Statement
“[Charleston, SC is] the place that imported more enslaved Africans than anywhere in this country,” Leonard Riley, a longtime dockworker and leader of International Longshoreman’s Association (ILA) Local 1422, said in a video posted to the local’s social media earlier...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Aug 15, 2024 | Statement
On Thursday, August 15, 47 workers at the Environmental Air Systems plant in High Point, North Carolina voted to unionize with United Association Local 421. Workers at the EAS plant manufacture HVAC systems used in industrial and other development projects. The EAS...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Jun 12, 2024 | Statement
On Wednesday, June 12, more than 100 workers at the Corning Inc. manufacturing plant in Tarboro, North Carolina will vote in a federal labor board election on whether to join the United Steelworkers. The union vote in Tarboro comes as part of a broader push by the USW...
by Southern Workers Assembly | May 30, 2024 | News, Workers School
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...
