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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
Southern-Wide Mass Moral March, Sat., Feb. 8, Raleigh, N.C.
The 8th Annual Historic Thousands on Jones St. (HKOJ) March and People's Assembly will be Saturday, February 8 in Raleigh. Join the Moral March on Raleigh! Thousands Stand Against Extremist...
Moral Mondays: the emergence & dynamics of a growing mass human rights movement
This statement is written in the build-up to a Southern-wide Mass Moral March, which is the 8th Annual Historic Thousands on Jones Street, on Saturday, February 8 in Raleigh, N.C. bringing together...
San Antonio Workers Rights Roundtable Launches Worker Assembly
Submitted by Joaquin Abrego The San Antonio, Texas section of the Southern Workers Assembly convened a workers rights roundtable on January 16, 2014. The...
Support Union Democracy in the International Longshormen’s Association
Call on ILA officers to allow the nomination of Mike Payne now! Sign the Petition: Union democracy must be a fundamental aspect of a democratic society, especially when the democratic rights and...
Statements
Solidarity with West Virginia Teacher Walk-outs!
Solidarity with West Virginia Teacher Walk-outs! Deepen the class struggle, strengthen our unions and fight against austerity! The Southern Workers Assembly sends our solidarity to the education...
Mississippi union organizers at Nissan vow to fight on
Mississippi union organizers at Nissan vow to fight on Company threatened workers By Martha Grevatt posted on August 9, 2017 In July, union organizers at the Canton, Miss., Nissan vehicle assembly...
Nissan manufacturing workers continue 13 year battle to build a union in Mississippi
SWA leaders got to meet with Nissan workers in Mississippi at the Dec. 9-11 Southern Human Rights Organizing Conference. They also joined a solidarity rally in front of their plant. They are...
Southern Workers Assembly pledges solidarity with Verizon workers strike
Verizon workers helped the company make $39 billion in profits over the last three years—and $1.8 billion a month in profits over the first three months of 2016. But that’s not enough for Verizon....