Statements, News, & Updates
Solidarity with laid off workers at DTNA’s plants in Mount Holly, Gastonia, and beyond
On Friday, July 11, at 3:30 p.m., second-shift workers at DTNA’s medium-duty truck manufacturing plant in Mount Holly, North Carolina were called into a “town hall” meeting with management. The workers, who are members of UAW Local 5285, were informed of the company’s...
Southern Worker Action Summit Sets Sights on Building Organization, Fightback
In the industrial hub of Spartanburg, SC, nearly 400 rank and file workers from every Southern state and key sectors across the region gathered from June 13 - 15 to chart a path to building more worker organization and broader fightback in the midst of the attacks...
U.S., U.K., Nigerian, and Uruguayan Gig Workers Call Joint May Day Strike & Boycott
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2025 U.S., U.K., Nigerian, and Uruguayan Gig Workers Call Joint May Day Strike & Boycott Southern Gig Drivers (U.S.), IWGB Private Hire Drivers Branch (U.K.), AUATON (Nigeria), and UCTRADU Sindicato (Uruguay) Unite in International...
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...