Statements, News, & Updates
Workplace blitz hits employers across Spartanburg County, SC
On an unseasonably warm afternoon in early March, four worker-volunteers stood at the employee entrance/exit of a major manufacturer in Greer, South Carolina, donning yellow reflective vests, clipboards, and fliers. A trickle of cars leaving the facility shortly past...
Why must we organize the South?
"As the South goes, so goes the nation."—W.E.B. DuBois “One thing we do not need is more labor unions. We have gotten where we are without them, and we do not need them now.”--- Henry McMaster, Governor of South Carolina, 2024 State of the State address, January 2024...
NC Amazon Workers Take on Corporate Giant – Solidarity with CAUSE union drive!
Amazon workers at Garner, NC’s RDU1 Fulfillment Center are gearing up for a union election at the facility, set to take place from February 10 - 15. The vote comes after over three years of organizing from the ground up by Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity...
Solidarity with REI workers in Greensboro!
The Triad Workers Assembly stands in solidarity with REI workers in Greensboro and their fight for a union. Workers at the Greensboro store are set to vote in a labor board election on Friday, January 24. As noted in an announcement by REI Union on social media,...
MLK Day 2025: Organize, Resist, Defend
January 20, 2025 is the 39th anniversary of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday. It is also the second inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States. There could not be a more ironic crossing of histories from one who spews ridicule, hatred,...
Strategic Role of Black Labor
The Southern Workers Assembly is republishing this piece by our late co-founder, Saladin Muhammad, originally published in May 2006. The system of national oppression is anchored by African-American national oppression; not because it was the first experience of...
Solidarity with Longshore Workers!
“[Charleston, SC is] the place that imported more enslaved Africans than anywhere in this country,” Leonard Riley, a longtime dockworker and leader of International Longshoreman’s Association (ILA) Local 1422, said in a video posted to the local’s social media earlier...
Solidarity with High Point, NC Environmental Air Systems workers who won their union!
On Thursday, August 15, 47 workers at the Environmental Air Systems plant in High Point, North Carolina voted to unionize with United Association Local 421. Workers at the EAS plant manufacture HVAC systems used in industrial and other development projects. The EAS...
Solidarity With Corning Workers Fighting for Their Union
On Wednesday, June 12, more than 100 workers at the Corning Inc. manufacturing plant in Tarboro, North Carolina will vote in a federal labor board election on whether to join the United Steelworkers. The union vote in Tarboro comes as part of a broader push by the USW...
Southern Worker School charts course for power
Southern politicians have gone out of their way in word and action to make clear they stand on the side of big business and racism as they’ve recently lamented that the “Alabama [ie - Southern] model for success is under attack” and vowing to “fight unions to the...
