News & Updates
Southern Workers School Opens 2018 Session in Durham Sept. 14-16
Southern Workers School Opens 2018 Session in Durham, Sept. 14-16 On September 14-16, 2018, the Southern Workers Assembly (SWA) will hold the third annual Southern Workers School in Durham, NC. This school will include a series 9 workshops of education, training and...
Charleston healthcare workers rally at MUSC
Charleston healthcare workers rally at MUSC
SWA Summer 2017 Newsletter
In This Edition: Mississippi auto workers on road to historic union vote Southern Workers School converges in Atlanta to "build cadre" to organize the South HEALTH CARE IN CRISIS - Emergency: Dead on Arrival in Georgia United Campus Workers Fights Massive Plan to...
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 planning for a national solidarity day of action on Jan 28. If you are...
With FLOC’s help, Sweet Potato Farmworkers Win a Union Contract
In 2014, four members of FLOC courageously spoke out against issues at Burch Farms in Faison North Carolina, exposing violations that many of their coworkers were too afraid to speak about. They filed a lawsuit for multiple types of wage theft and other labor...
Virginia Workers Push Back Right-To-Work (for less) at Voting Booth
By Southern Workers Assembly On November 8, a ballot initiative that would have put the state’s right-to-work (for less) status in the state constitution was defeated in Virginia thus securing an important victory for poor and working people everywhere. If approved,...
Tennessee is Not for Sale! #TNisNotForSale University Workers Fight Privatization!
By Tom Smith, CWA In August 2015, United Campus Workers (a Communication Workers of America local union) learned of a secret plan being pushed by Tennessee’s Governor Bill Haslam to privatize the building management, maintenance, and security at every single piece of...
N.C. City Workers Launch Statewide Organizing Campaign – Fight for Workers Bill of Rights & Host Statewide Summit
UE local 150, NC Public Service Workers Union has launched an exciting new campaign to organize a statewide movement of city workers. In Greensboro, several hundred workers have expressed interest in joining the union and formed a strong Organizing Committee over the...
Uniting Workers at the Point of Production and Service Against the Racist Police Killings
By Saladin Muhammad Since the September 11 World Trade Center attack, the presidential administrations, campaigns and the current 2016 presidential election, have intensify the levels of government repression against working-class Blacks and people of color, and...
Fight for $15 stages national strike, civil disobedience across US and South
By Ben Carroll, Raise Up On November 29, fast food and low wage workers in over 300 cities across the US and the South went on strike demanding at least $15/hour and the right to form a union at McDonalds and other fast food restaurants. They were joined in these...