Build Worker Power in the South - Join the Southern Workers Assembly
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
S.W.A. Supports Days of Grace
Days of Grace March and Rally Charleston, S.C. www.daysofgracecharleston.org Labor Day Weekend September 5, 9:00am: National Mass March & Rally Southern Workers Assembly Meeting: 12:30pm...
Aug 9: All Out for Solidarity City!
Aug 9: All Out for Solidarity City! Workers Fighting To Organize the South! August 9 | 10am-5pm | 803 Harris St, Goldsboro, NC Visit the Facebook Event Page On Saturday, August 9 workers from across...
A Message to the Moral Monday Movement June 16th, 2014
WORKERS DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS The RIGHT to a voice and power at work is a Human Right! A Message to the Moral Monday Movement June 16th, 2014: [download id=1449 format=3] Raise the minimum wage to...
SWA Salutes Teachers Resistance To Education Cuts in NC – Moral Monday Action, June 9, 2014
Onwards to building local Worker Assemblies ! Thousands of teachers, bus drivers, housekeepers, kitchen and other education workers, along with students and parents from hundreds of schools across...
Statements
Stand Up – Fight Back – Defend Your Rights – Vote
STAND UP - FIGHT BACK - STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS VOTE GO EARLY IN PERSON IF YOU SAFELY CAN OTHERWISE USE A MAIL BALLOT BRING FAMILY, WORKMATES AND FRIENDS TO VOTE WITH YOU DEMAND YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE...
From George Floyd to COVID-19, Two Pandemics Target Black Workers
Southern Workers Assembly Statement Link the fight for workplace safety with the fight against police brutality Workers in the US are currently facing two tragic pandemics. The first is the plight...
“Regresen a trabajar” – dice Trump a los trabajadores de procesadoras de carne. Con la amenaza a sus vidas por el COVID-19.
En abril 28, en el día Memorial de los Trabajadores - un día que el movimiento laboral conmemora a los trabajadores que han muerto en el trabajo y mientras los Estados Unidos tiene más de 61,000...
‘Get back to work!’ – Trump tells meatpacking workers facing COVID-19 threat to their lives
Southern Workers Assembly Statement On April 28, Workers Memorial Day — a day the labor movement commemorates workers who have died on the job — and while the U.S. tops a staggering 61,000 deaths...