The Southern Workers Assembly, founded in 2012 and based in North Carolina, is a social justice organization fighting to organize unorganized workers across the South.
The Workers Assembly Model Comes to Virginia
Unions & allies celebrate at 2nd annual Union Fest
More than 130 union members and supporters gathered in Byrd Park today for “Union Fest,” an event celebrating organized labor.
AFL-CIO to Biden: ‘Stop the raid on the postal pension fund!’
Editor’s note: On Feb. 16, The Virginia Defender received the following email from Team AFL-CIO, pertaining to the postal pension fund.
Workers at Mom’s Siam still fighting for better pay
They walked, they rallied, they protested – and they got fired. Or at least that’s the way it looks, for now.
Tyson consolidates away 600 jobs
Tyson Foods informed its workers’ union on March 13 that it would be closing its plant in Glen Allen, Va., laying off all 692 workers.
VA. solidarity with RR workers
On March 11, members of the Tidewater Workers Assembly, a chapter of the Southern Workers Assembly, staged a protest outside the Lamberts Point coal yards in Norfolk to call out Norfolk Southern for what it called its dangerous practices. It was part of a national day of solidarity with railroad workers.
Kroger workers charge wage theft
A group of Kroger workers in Virginia and West Virginia have filed a class action lawsuit against the giant grocery chain, charging that the company’s payroll software has been systematically shorting workers their rightful pay.
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