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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.), AUATON (Nigeria), and UCTRADU Sindicato (Uruguay) Unite in International...
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, clipboards, and fliers. A trickle of cars leaving the facility shortly past...
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, Governor of South Carolina, 2024 State of the State address, January 2024...
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 African-American national oppression; not because it was the first experience of...
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] model for success is under attack” and vowing to “fight unions to the...
Charlotte, Triangle Central Labor Council Resolutions in Support of a Ceasefire
The Southern Workers Assembly is re-publishing and sharing the following resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the Israeli/U.S. war on Palestine, and encouraging other workers and unions to share these statements widely. We encourage other central labor councils,...
Southern Worker School advances consciousness, organization, collective action heading into 2024
“This convening is called a worker school, but in many ways it’s really an organizing conference,” Ajamu Dillahunt, a member of the SWA Coordinating Committee and Black Workers for Justice, addressed the crowd during the opening session of the Fall 2023 Southern...
Ceasefire Now! Money for workers’ needs, not for bombing Palestine!
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. noted that “war is the enemy of poor and working people,” and that the triple evils of racism, poverty, and militarism were to blame for the suffering of workers in the United States. The Southern Workers Assembly stands in full solidarity...
Organize, Fight, Win – Shop floor struggle at Amazon
“Why don’t we all go ask?” “What?” “Why don’t we all go? Management can brush it off if it’s just you, but if we all go they can’t ignore that.” It’s a small thing really, a co-worker requesting a religious accommodation that won’t cost the company much money, but...
It’s about power: Southern Worker School charts path for building workers movement in the U.S. South
“We heard from the rail workers. We heard from the truckers. We’ve got the longshoremen in the house, too,” said Leonard Riley, a longshore worker with the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 1422 and member of the SWA Coordinating Committee,...