Statements, News, & Updates
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...
Southern workers gather to build Workers Assembly movement
Under the slogan “Build the Workers Assembly Movement! Organize the South!,” nearly 80 workers from eight Southern states gathered in Durham, North Carolina for a Southern Workers Assembly Organizing School over the weekend of April 29 – May 1. Workers came to the...
The First Step is Often the Most Difficult – Statement on ALU Victory
All congratulations to the good workers who led the ALU to its Labor Board election victory in Staten Island New York. Yours is an inspiring example of rank and file worker self-organization to improve working conditions and change corporate policies. The SWA will...
Your support needed for upcoming Workers Assembly Organizing School
Organize the South! Develop the Workers Assembly Movement! Donate today to help us host a Southern Workers School Throughout the last year, the movement to develop workers assemblies as the basis for developing an independent, rank and file-led workers movement...
Bessemer, Alabama Amazon Workers Continue Struggle to Unionize
The second Bessemer Alabama Amazon workers and Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) labor board union vote will be counted starting on March 28th. It comes as a result of the National Labor Relations Board ruling that Amazon’s anti-union actions in the...
