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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
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...
Southern Worker School charts course for power
Southern politicians have gone out of their way in word and action to make clear they stand on the side of big business and racism as they’ve recently lamented that the “Alabama [ie - Southern]...
Statements
Unite on MLK Day 2026 — Defend Our: Jobs, Rights, Wages, Healthcare! Divest From: ICE, Border Patrol, and War!
Medicare for all! Stop the raids and deportations of immigrant workers! Day of Action Across the US South! Dr. MLK Holiday, January 16 - 19 Trump and the billionaires are waging an all out war on...
Southern Workers: Fight Back on October 18
The billionaires are on the offensive, launching attack after attack that’s impacting every section of the working class. Beyond their immediate objectives, they hope that the furious pace of...
Southern Workers Reject Trump’s Deployment of National Guard to Memphis
On September 16, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order authorizing the deployment of the National Guard and other federal police agencies to Memphis, TN. Right wing Tennessee Governor Bill...
Southern Workers Condemn ICE Raid on Savannah Hyundai Plant
The Southern Workers Assembly roundly condemns the unnecessary, wasteful, and cruel raid conducted by Homeland Security,ICE, and numerous other police agencies Thursday, September 4 at the Hyundai...