by Southern Workers Assembly | May 5, 2022 | News
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...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Apr 8, 2022 | Amazon, News, Statement
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...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Mar 23, 2022 | News, Workers School
Organize the South! Develop the Workers Assembly Movement! Donate today to help us host a Southern Workers School Throughout the last year, the movement to develop workers assemblies as the basis for developing an independent, rank and file-led workers movement...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Feb 16, 2022 | News, Safe Jobs Save Lives
Gloria Lee, a former Amazon worker, spent her afternoon leading chants and talking to Amazon workers outside a delivery station in east Durham. “Jeff Bezos you can’t hide! We can see your greedy side,” she chanted along with other Amazon workers and...
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 | Jun 15, 2020 | News, Safe Jobs Save Lives, Workers Rights
The following remarks were given by Ajamu Dillahunt — a member of the Southern Workers Assembly steering committee, a leader in Black Workers for Justice, and a retired local president of the American Postal Workers Union — at the opening of the Southern...
