News & Updates
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...
South Carolina Workers Fightback
South Carolina workers are on the frontlines of the fightback against the pandemics of pox, poverty and police violence. On June 9, Charleston longshore workers stopped work to join thousands of waterfront workers across the country and the world in protesting police...
Southern Workers Fightback & Organize amid COVID-19
WEBINAR: Tuesday, April 28 at 6:00pm REGISTER TODAY HERE. Webinar will be co-facilitated by:Saladin Muhammad, Co-Director, Southern Workers Assembly, founding member of Black Workers for Justice, and retired International Representative with UEDanielle...
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...