News & Updates
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,...
Southern-Wide Mass Moral March, Sat., Feb. 8, Raleigh, N.C.
The 8th Annual Historic Thousands on Jones St. (HKOJ) March and People's Assembly will be Saturday, February 8 in Raleigh. Join the Moral March on Raleigh! Thousands Stand Against Extremist Policies Being Passed by NC Governor and Legislature Saturday, February...
Moral Mondays: the emergence & dynamics of a growing mass human rights movement
This statement is written in the build-up to a Southern-wide Mass Moral March, which is the 8th Annual Historic Thousands on Jones Street, on Saturday, February 8 in Raleigh, N.C. bringing together hundreds of unions, civil rights, anti-war, women's rights,...
San Antonio Workers Rights Roundtable Launches Worker Assembly
Submitted by Joaquin Abrego The San Antonio, Texas section of the Southern Workers Assembly convened a workers rights roundtable on January 16, 2014. The roundtable emerged from conversations between the Southwest Workers Union...
Support Union Democracy in the International Longshormen’s Association
Call on ILA officers to allow the nomination of Mike Payne now! Sign the Petition: Union democracy must be a fundamental aspect of a democratic society, especially when the democratic rights and needs of working-class and poor people as well as labor unions are under...
Solidarity with N.C. Teacher’s Walk-in
Southern Workers Assembly Salutes the November 4 Education Worker Walk-In's On Monday, November 4 thousands of teachers, bus drivers, housekeepers, kitchen and other education workers from several dozen schools across the state of North Carolina organized a "walk-in"...
