News & Updates
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,...
Starting Sept 5: Webinar series on Worker Power Program
The Southern Workers Assembly is excited to invite you to join an upcoming webinar series led by Communiversity, an educational partner of Black Workers for Justice, that will explore and discuss the nine points of the Southern Workers Power Program. The series begins...
Southern workers gather to build Workers Assembly movement
Under the slogan “Build the Workers Assembly Movement! Organize the South!,” nearly 80 workers from eight Southern states gathered in Durham, North Carolina for a Southern Workers Assembly Organizing School over the weekend of April 29 – May 1. Workers came to the...
The First Step is Often the Most Difficult – Statement on ALU Victory
All congratulations to the good workers who led the ALU to its Labor Board election victory in Staten Island New York. Yours is an inspiring example of rank and file worker self-organization to improve working conditions and change corporate policies. The SWA will...
Your support needed for upcoming Workers Assembly Organizing School
Organize the South! Develop the Workers Assembly Movement! Donate today to help us host a Southern Workers School Throughout the last year, the movement to develop workers assemblies as the basis for developing an independent, rank and file-led workers movement...
In wake of COVID workplace deaths, workers across NC organize emergency rallies for safety! #SafeJobsSaveLives
Gloria Lee, a former Amazon worker, spent her afternoon leading chants and talking to Amazon workers outside a delivery station in east Durham. "Jeff Bezos you can't hide! We can see your greedy side," she chanted along with other Amazon workers and supporters as part...
As part of Southern trend, Elizabeth City workers strike for better pay
After three years of receiving zero pay raises and working 16 months through a global pandemic with no recognition or hazard pay, city workers in Elizabeth City, N.C., staged a two-day work stoppage June 29-30. The Black-majority workers in the city’s Public Works and...
COVID-19 Safety & Health Webinar for Transit Workers
Upcoming health and safety webinar for transit workers, convened by our friends from the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (NCOSH)
The Two Pandemics
The following remarks were given by Ajamu Dillahunt -- a member of the Southern Workers Assembly steering committee, a leader in Black Workers for Justice, and a retired local president of the American Postal Workers Union -- at the opening of the Southern Workers...