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The Southern Workers Assembly (SWA) is a network of local unions, worker organizations, and organizing committees, committed to building rank-and-file democratic social movement unionism in the South. Learn more >>>
Solidarity with Bessemer, Alabama Amazon Workers!
Between Feb 8, and March 29, approximately 6,000 majority Black Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama will begin voting by mail on whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale Department Store Workers Union (RWDSU). Solidarity from every corner of the labor and progressive movement is needed now to support this historic struggle. Learn more >>>
Southern Workers Fight for Medicare for All
Safe Jobs Save Lives Campaign
Workers across the US South are on the move demanding workplace safety amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic. Southern workers also need a strategy and self-organization to secure any gains they make through collective action. Learn more >>>
Bessemer, Alabama Amazon Workers Fight to Win Union
Between Feb 8, and March 29, approximately 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama will begin voting by mail on whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale Department Store Workers Union (RWDSU).
These predominantly Black workers who have in recent months formed the BAmazon Workers Union, are on the cusp of launching a history-changing workers organization against one of the biggest and most powerful transnational corporations in the world, and its super rich union busting owner, Jeff Bezos. In addition, these workers are standing up to the racist, anti-union laws that suppress labor across the South.
Solidarity from every corner of the labor and progressive movements is needed now to show the workers in Bessemer that they are not alone, that all eyes are on the historic struggle that they are leading. This is especially needed as Amazon ramps up their union-busting tactics.
A Workers Guide to Meatpacking | Una guía para trabajadores sobre la industria de productos cárnicos
Bilingual English-Spanish!
A new booklet from the Southern Workers Assembly
⇒ Learn the facts and the fights across 16 southern states
⇒ Get the answers to ten basic questions about meat work in COVID time
¡Bilingüe español-inglés!
Un nuevo folleto de la Asamblea de Trabajadores del Sur
⇒ Los hechos y las peleas en 16 estados del sur
⇒ Las respuestas a diez preguntas básicas sobre el trabajo de la carne en el tiempo de COVID
News & Updates
U.S., U.K., Nigerian, and Uruguayan Gig Workers Call Joint May Day Strike & Boycott
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.),...
Workplace blitz hits employers across Spartanburg County, SC
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,...
Why must we organize the South?
"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,...
Strategic Role of Black Labor
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...
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NC Amazon Workers Take on Corporate Giant – Solidarity with CAUSE union drive!
Amazon workers at Garner, NC’s RDU1 Fulfillment Center are gearing up for a union election at the facility, set to take place from February 10 - 15. The vote comes after over three years of...
Solidarity with REI workers in Greensboro!
The Triad Workers Assembly stands in solidarity with REI workers in Greensboro and their fight for a union. Workers at the Greensboro store are set to vote in a labor board election on Friday,...
MLK Day 2025: Organize, Resist, Defend
January 20, 2025 is the 39th anniversary of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday. It is also the second inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States. There could not be a...
Solidarity with Longshore Workers!
“[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)...