SACRAMENTO
IS A UNION
CAPITAL
SIX COUNTIES
UNITED IN
SOLIDARITY &
MUTUAL AID
The Sacramento Central Labor Council represents workers throughout Amador, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties in Northern California.
Sac CLC is a democratically governed council of over 100 affiliated unions and labor organizations, representing about 200,000 union members in the region. We come together to defend the rights of working people, build the collective power of our labor movement, support workers in our campaigns, and fight against social and economic injustice and for a world where all workers democratically determine the conditions of their workplaces and their world.
A UNION FORCE
200,000 STRONG
AND GROWING
Workers across the region are forming and joining unions, marching and striking, winning strong contracts, and holding their bosses to account. The Sacramento Central Labor Council congregates, strategizes, and empowers unions and workers alike to gain leverage from employers, spearheading the labor and union movements to empower workers and scale their efforts in the movement against predatory schemes of the billionaire class.
This CLC represents the collective union members in the Sac region, building the power of members with delegation assemblies to accomplish labor united strategic programs, workshops and training, volunteer organizing, community services, campaign support, legislative advocacy, labor movement leadership, union news and research, community social events, and so much more.
EVERYBODY IS
AN ORGANIZER,
EVERYTHING IS
AN ORGANIZING
OPPORTUNITY
Sac CLC hosts workshops and classes in organizing strategy and tactics, panels and talks on labor issues, reading groups, trainings on useful skills for organizing, and access to valuable organizing tools and resources.
Whether your passion is working class history, woodworking, web design, or watercolors, we can help you develop your skills and put them to use to advance the labor movement.
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NEWSLETTER
You can receive weekly updates from the Sacramento Central Labor Council with notices about events and classes, volunteer opportunities, affiliate union actions and campaigns, and resources for labor power.
ALWAYS BE ORGANIZING
Wealth shouldn’t be concentrated at the very top with just a few billionaires, and there shouldn’t be people working extra jobs to pay the bills, or sleeping in tents under highway overpasses, or worried their boss could fire them for no reason and end their health care.
But the bosses of the world aren’t going to become saviors of the working class, so we as workers must organize ourselves to fight and win what we deserve. Our power comes from solidarity, from our collective capacity when we are united in a union, and in coalitions of unions. As the great abolitionist organizer Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
No matter whether you are a longtime union delegate or newly employed at a job without union representation, whether you are a retired former union member or unemployed and looking for work, there are so many ways for you to organize and help build the power of the labor movement.
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You can search available union staff jobs in the region on the Union Jobs website.
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Visit the Sacramento-Sierra’s Building & Construction Trades Council Apprenticeship Opportunities page for information on 32 programs with pathways into careers in union trades, known as Joint Apprenticeship Training Centers (JATCs).
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Visit Unionize California to connect with staff at the California Federation of Labor Unions, who can help you start organizing your workplace and introduce you to skilled union organizers.
You can also consult our Tools page for useful resources and information, and sign up for upcoming workshops and classes.
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Sac CLC holds Labor 101 workshops for local elected officials, aspiring candidates, and other political professionals who seek to be allies to the labor movement.
The CLC also organizes pro-labor political slates for ADEMS and endorses candidates for local political races from school board to assembly.
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Sac CLC has a formal democratic process for endorsing labor candidates, and we provide detailed information on who we consider to be labor allies and why.
We encourage our members to vote for pro-labor candidates and causes, and you can help by volunteering to phone bank and canvas to spread the message on behalf of the labor movement and inform our community about the stakes involved in political races.
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Sac CLC organizes Community Services volunteer groups for our member unions to support local causes and demonstrate the power of mutual aid and solidarity by showing up and showing out for our local community.
Click HERE to register to volunteer for Community Services and lead by example.
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The labor movement isn’t all struggle and sacrifice. It’s also important to get together with our labor siblings and enjoy the gift of each others’ company. Sac CLC organizes social events and stimulating talks, reading groups, and strategy sessions, so there’s always something to engage with and enjoy. Check out our upcoming events.
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Check out the AFL-CIO Buy Union guides to see which companies are unionized and their Boycott guides to see which are union-busting and must be avoided.
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With reading groups, forums and talks, workshops, classes, webinars, and more, there’s a lot of events at the CLC that you can engage with to train up your skills and power up the labor movement.
Our lending library contains hundreds of physical and digital books on labor issues—including history, economics, novels, songbooks, and children’s books—as well as useful objects to check out and use, such as megaphones and tabling materials. To borrow, come on in and check out the library!
Looking for more tools and resources? Check out our Tools page.
