News & Updates
SWA Plans Southern Workers School in March – Help support this historic gathering!
SWA Plans Southern Workers School in March - Help support this historic gathering! On March 4-6, 2016, the Southern Workers Assembly (SWA) will hold the Southern Workers School in Raleigh, NC. This will be the first of an 8 session series of education, training and...
Low wage workers strike from coast to coast, across US South
A wave of strikes and protests by low-wage workers fighting for a $15 minimum hourly wage and a union swept the U.S. on Nov. 10, and made this the largest day of action ever as this movement enters its third year. From Boston to Los Angeles; Seattle to Chicago; New...
S.W.A. Supports Days of Grace
Days of Grace March and Rally Charleston, S.C. www.daysofgracecharleston.org Labor Day Weekend September 5, 9:00am: National Mass March & Rally Southern Workers Assembly Meeting: 12:30pm (immediately following the march) at ILA local 1422 Union hall 1142 Morrison...
Aug 9: All Out for Solidarity City!
Aug 9: All Out for Solidarity City! Workers Fighting To Organize the South! August 9 | 10am-5pm | 803 Harris St, Goldsboro, NC Visit the Facebook Event Page On Saturday, August 9 workers from across NC and other Southern states will gather in Goldsboro, NC for...
A Message to the Moral Monday Movement June 16th, 2014
WORKERS DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS The RIGHT to a voice and power at work is a Human Right! A Message to the Moral Monday Movement June 16th, 2014: [download id=1449 format=3] Raise the minimum wage to $15/hr. Repeal GS 95-98, Collective Bargain-ing Rights for All Public...
SWA Salutes Teachers Resistance To Education Cuts in NC – Moral Monday Action, June 9, 2014
Onwards to building local Worker Assemblies ! Thousands of teachers, bus drivers, housekeepers, kitchen and other education workers, along with students and parents from hundreds of schools across the state of North Carolina have been organizing over the past year,...
International Workers Day 2014
May 1, 2014 International Workers Day The South Pulls Together and Unites for Universal Worker Rights and Decolonization of Labor and Migration Join a march near you, Thursday, May 1: San Antonio, Texas - 6:00pm, Milam Park, 500 W Houston St, San Antonio, Texas 78207....
CWA, Allies in Tennessee Tell Lawmakers ‘Put the People First’
Campus Workers United - Communications Workers of America are a founding member of the Southern Workers Assembly. Their recent action in Nashville, Tennessee is an important example of workers taking the lead in spreading the growing mass fight back against the...
Action Alert: Stand with Chris
Disrespect for healthcare workers is disrespect for patients and harmful to quality care! Healthcare Workers’ United Charleston, SC February 27, 2014 Sign the petition demanding that Chris be re-instated! South Carolina Activist Fired from Hospital...
North Carolina Local Worker Assemblies
Raleigh/Durham Sat. February 22, 12noon, Teamsters Union hall, 6317 Angus Dr, Raleigh (off HWY 70 Between Raleigh & Durham). Contact Angaza Laughinghouse at 919-231-2660 for more info Goldsboro/Greenville/Wilson/Down East Saturday, March 8, Wilson,...