Statements, News, & Updates
Southern Worker School advances consciousness, organization, collective action heading into 2024
“This convening is called a worker school, but in many ways it’s really an organizing conference,” Ajamu Dillahunt, a member of the SWA Coordinating Committee and Black Workers for Justice, addressed the crowd during the opening session of the Fall 2023 Southern...
Ceasefire Now! Money for workers’ needs, not for bombing Palestine!
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. noted that “war is the enemy of poor and working people,” and that the triple evils of racism, poverty, and militarism were to blame for the suffering of workers in the United States. The Southern Workers Assembly stands in full solidarity...
An Open Letter to Chain Retail Pharmacies
The Southern Workers Assembly received the following statement from a group of pharmacy workers that support the movement for a strike at Walgreens and CVS from October 30 to November 1. The SWA stands in solidarity with the workers at these chains and beyond that are...
Organize, Fight, Win – Shop floor struggle at Amazon
“Why don’t we all go ask?” “What?” “Why don’t we all go? Management can brush it off if it’s just you, but if we all go they can’t ignore that.” It’s a small thing really, a co-worker requesting a religious accommodation that won’t cost the company much money, but...
Solidarity with Truckers Movement for Justice
On May 1, Truckers Movement for Justice (TMJ) - a grassroots labor organization of truck drivers who work in all areas of the trucking industry - brought truck drivers together from across the country in Washington, DC, for a picket outside the U.S. Department of...
It’s about power: Southern Worker School charts path for building workers movement in the U.S. South
“We heard from the rail workers. We heard from the truckers. We’ve got the longshoremen in the house, too,” said Leonard Riley, a longshore worker with the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 1422 and member of the SWA Coordinating Committee,...
Bring the railroads under public ownership
The Southern Workers Assembly joins the Railroad Workers United and a growing number of unions and progressive organizations calling for public ownership of the rail infrastructure in North America. This is a critical initiative that would greatly benefit rail...
Starting Sept 5: Webinar series on Worker Power Program
The Southern Workers Assembly is excited to invite you to join an upcoming webinar series led by Communiversity, an educational partner of Black Workers for Justice, that will explore and discuss the nine points of the Southern Workers Power Program. The series begins...
Solidarity with Climate Crisis Flood Survivors in Kentucky
The Southern Workers Assembly stands in full solidarity with our working-class and oppressed sisters, brothers and siblings of eastern Kentucky. The horrendous floods, brought on by decades, if not centuries, of corporate greed and intentional underdevelopment, is...
Defending and expanding abortion rights is part of the workers’ struggle
The Southern Workers Assembly stands in solidarity with the many thousands who have taken to the streets to demonstrate outrage at the Supreme Court’s imminent attack on women’s rights. We also recognize the special importance of the South in the fight to keep...