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Safe Jobs Save Lives Campaign
Workers across the US South are on the move demanding workplace safety amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic. Southern workers also need a strategy and self-organization to secure any gains they make through collective action. Learn more >>>
Southern Workers Fight for Medicare for All
A Workers Guide to Meatpacking / Una guía para trabajadores sobre la industria de productos cárnicos
Bilingual English-Spanish!
A new booklet from the Southern Workers Assembly
¡Bilingüe español-inglés!
Un nuevo folleto de la Asamblea de Trabajadores del Sur
News & Updates
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...
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...
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...
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...
Statements
Mississippi union organizers at Nissan vow to fight on
Mississippi union organizers at Nissan vow to fight on Company threatened workers By Martha Grevatt posted on August 9, 2017 In July, union organizers at the Canton, Miss., Nissan vehicle assembly...
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...
Southern Workers Assembly pledges solidarity with Verizon workers strike
Verizon workers helped the company make $39 billion in profits over the last three years—and $1.8 billion a month in profits over the first three months of 2016. But that’s not enough for Verizon....
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...