by Southern Workers Assembly | Aug 10, 2022 | Statement
The Southern Workers Assembly stands in full solidarity with our working-class and oppressed sisters, brothers and siblings of eastern Kentucky. The horrendous floods, brought on by decades, if not centuries, of corporate greed and intentional underdevelopment, is...
by Southern Workers Assembly | May 7, 2022 | Statement
The Southern Workers Assembly stands in solidarity with the many thousands who have taken to the streets to demonstrate outrage at the Supreme Court’s imminent attack on women’s rights. We also recognize the special importance of the South in the fight to keep...
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 Saladin Muhammad | Mar 20, 2022 | Amazon, Statement
The second Bessemer Alabama Amazon workers and Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) labor board union vote will be counted starting on March 28th. It comes as a result of the National Labor Relations Board ruling that Amazon’s anti-union actions in the...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Feb 14, 2022 | Statement
The Southern Workers Assembly sends our solidarity with the Memphis 7 and all Starbucks workers organizing for rights, safety, and power on the job. We join the calls for Starbucks to immediately rehire these workers and stop their racist union busting campaign....
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...