Statements, News, & Updates
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...
Solidarity with Chattanooga Volkswagen workers!
Message to non-union Southern workers from the Southern Workers’ Assembly (SWA) All forward-thinking Southern workers congratulate the UAW and celebrate with VWworkers for their smashing organizing victory in Chattanooga. May this be the first ofmany victories in our...
The South Stands Up! Solidarity with DTNA workers and auto workers on the move!
The Southern Workers Assembly expresses our full solidarity with the 7,000 Daimler Truck North America (DTNA) workers and UAW members in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia engaged in a contract fight to win record gains from this highly profitable, multinational...
Kenneth Jefferson of the Charleston Five, presente!
Despite his untimely passing this week, Kenneth Jefferson lives on in the memories and hearts of his loved ones. Brother Jefferson’s light also burns bright in the spirit of Local 1422. His story is one of a simple act of boldness and solidarity that had historic...
Charlotte, Triangle Central Labor Council Resolutions in Support of a Ceasefire
The Southern Workers Assembly is re-publishing and sharing the following resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the Israeli/U.S. war on Palestine, and encouraging other workers and unions to share these statements widely. We encourage other central labor councils,...
Solidarity with Guilford County Schools cafeteria workers!
The Triad Workers Assembly wants to express our solidarity with cafeteria workers from Guilford County Schools who waged a two-day, sick-out strike on November 27 and 28. These workers are standing up and exercising their labor rights to demand a living wage for the...
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...