by Southern Workers Assembly | Jun 26, 2025 | News
In the industrial hub of Spartanburg, SC, nearly 400 rank and file workers from every Southern state and key sectors across the region gathered from June 13 – 15 to chart a path to building more worker organization and broader fightback in the midst of the...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Apr 25, 2025 | News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2025 U.S., U.K., Nigerian, and Uruguayan Gig Workers Call Joint May Day Strike & Boycott Southern Gig Drivers (U.S.), IWGB Private Hire Drivers Branch (U.K.), AUATON (Nigeria), and UCTRADU Sindicato (Uruguay) Unite in International...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Apr 2, 2025 | News
On an unseasonably warm afternoon in early March, four worker-volunteers stood at the employee entrance/exit of a major manufacturer in Greer, South Carolina, donning yellow reflective vests, clipboards, and fliers. A trickle of cars leaving the facility shortly past...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Mar 24, 2025 | News
“As the South goes, so goes the nation.”—W.E.B. DuBois “One thing we do not need is more labor unions. We have gotten where we are without them, and we do not need them now.”— Henry McMaster, Governor of South Carolina, 2024 State of the State...
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 | 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...
