Organize the South Rank and File Program
Healthcare, housing, food, and bills all keep getting more expensive. Our jobs are being threatened by the trade wars and automation. Border Patrol, ICE, and the military are being mobilized to our streets to terrorize our immigrant neighbors and keep us all afraid and divided.
The Trump administration and the billionaires want to make themselves richer while the rest of us suffer. Enough is enough!
Southern workers bear the brunt of these hardships and attacks. The U.S. South is the least unionized region of the country. We earn the lowest wages, experience the highest levels of poverty of any region of the country despite having the highest GDP, and our state houses are dominated by MAGA. Nearly 60% of Black workers in the U.S. live in the South, and the region has the fastest growing population of immigrant workers.
Big tech billionaires and other gigantic multinational corporations see the South as a place they can come to get cheap land, cheap electricity, and cheap labor to make big profits on our backs to hand out to their Wall Street shareholders. Data centers, the battery supply chain, pharmaceutical companies, electrical component production, and many more industries are making big capital investments into the South right now for this reason.
We know that the only way to change the quality of work and life here is to get organized. The working class is in the most strategic position to lead the fight against these immediate attacks and to transform our society. There are more of us than there are of them, and if we come together and take action, we can exercise our power and impact their ability to profits.
The Southern Workers Assembly is currently recruiting workers who want to be a part of leading this change, by getting jobs in key strategic industries across the region and digging in for the long-term to build power with their coworkers.
Please fill out the form below if you are interested in participating in this program, and someone will be in touch with you shortly.