This past weekend, Southwest Workers Union launched our Nuestra Voz Climate Justice Campaign, which is aimed at connecting community members, in the front lines of climate inequity, with information on environmental pollutants, cleaner and more renewable sources of energy, and a health survey. Over the course of the weekend, climate justice promotorxs and volunteers knocked on more than 500 doors and collected 50 signatures in the south southwest neighborhood in support of ending coal and having neighborhood meetings on how they can be climate ready! Our campaign continues this week and runs through June 20. If you would like to become more connected and knock some doors for climate justice,
It is an honor and a privilege to say that we are celebrating 30 Years as a social justice community organization. Southwest Workers Union ( SWU) was founded in 1988 with the intention to advocate for just wages and working conditions for underpaid local school workers in Hondo Texas. In the early 90's until 2000, SWU worked out of a home office in the Southside of San Antonio incorporating environmental justice along with the public working class issues. From 2001 to present, Southwest Workers Union is now permanently housed on the Eastside of San Antonio on E. Commerce St. SWU now focuses on workers rights, healthy communities and civic engagement. On May 1st 2018, International Workers Da
