We’re hosting a joint committee meeting on Monday, May 20th, where we’ll be diving into critical next steps and planning actions for the summer. This won’t be just another meeting—we’re getting ready for a busy and hot labor summer, and we need all hands on deck.

Here’s what’s on the agenda:

Defending Medicaid from harmful cuts threatening our most vulnerable communities

Championing the Medicare for All Act of 2025

Hearing from local housing experts about key campaigns and opportunities for action

Mapping out our summer plans for organizing, outreach, and community mobilization

Monday, May 20th
6:00PM
2617 K Street, Sacramento CA, 95816

Come ready to share, strategize, and build power. Let’s make sure our communities are seen, heard, and protected this summer and beyond

Our legislative lobby breakfast is an opportunity for labor leaders to meet and ask questions of our region’s legislators. We’ll spend about with each elected and discuss current legislation and issues that pertain to important labor movement priorities.

Our healthcare—and our communities—are under threat.

Congressman Kevin Kiley is considering devastating cuts to Medicaid, a move that would endanger access to care for millions of working families, seniors, people with disabilities, and children right here in California.

That’s why SEIU-UHW is calling on you to join us in action next Tuesday for a small but powerful rally at Dignity Mercy Hospital of Folsom in Rep. Kiley’s district. We need to make it loud and clear: cutting Medicaid is a direct attack on our health and our dignity.

Dignity Mercy Hospital Folsom – Tuesday May, 13

Time: 11:30AM

Location: 1650 Creekside Dr. Folsom CA 95630

Let’s show Rep. Kiley that we won’t sit silently while our health is on the chopping block. Join UHW and community members as we demand he vote NO on Medicaid cuts and stand with the people he was elected to represent—not corporate interests.

Your voice matters. Your presence matters. Together, we can protect healthcare for all.

We are the only high-income country that does not guarantee health coverage. We have among the lowest rates of physician visits and practicing physicians, the lowest number of hospital beds, and the shortest hospital stays. We live the shortest lives and have the most avoidable deaths. Our health care access and experience is the least equitable. We have the highest rate of infant and maternal deaths. The problem is profit-seeking. We need public-funded health care for everyone.

Over fifty percent of Sacramento residents are renters. About thirty percent of renters in Sacramento report paying half of their income on rent, and about half of all renters reported paying more than 35% of their income on rent. This is not affordable—and it is not sustainable. As a result of high rents and a lack of public housing support, nearly 10,000 people are living unhoused in Sacramento County on any given night. We must mobilize to win housing for everybody in our community.

SEIU 2015 is hosting a resource fair at their membership hall, with appetizers, prizes, and a variety of resources and services. For more information, contact Ivory Watts at ivoryw@seiu2015.org.

The California Alliance for Retired Americans is hosting a Zoom forum next Friday, January 24 at noon, to discuss what’s on the horizon for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, and how we can organize to defend these essential programs from attack by the new administration and Congress. Speakers will include: Lorena Gonzalez, President of the California Federation of Labor Unions; Jaimie Worker, Director of Public Policy at Caring Across Generations; and David Simon, Legislative Representative at the Alliance for Retired Americans. To register to attend the forum, click the link:

RSVP for CARA Zoom Forum

Sac CLC will be at Grant Union High School early on Monday morning, and we invite you all to join us at the march. The assembly begins at 8 am, program begins at 9 am, and the march launches at 10 am, after which there will be a resource fair and strategy sessions in the afternoon. Come out and honor one of this nation’s great champions of the labor movement.

we will be standing with working people at the Robert T. Matsui Federal Courthouse at 501 I Street, as part of a national mobilization of demonstrations against the billionaires’ agenda across the country leading up to the inauguration.

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The California Jobs First/We Prosper Together Catalyst Fund is providing $9 million in grant support for emerging projects that create pathways to quality jobs in Northern California.

Our program consultant Zach Freels and Scarlette Bustos of The Ring of Democracy will lead a workshop on developing grant proposals to submit to the Catalyst Pre-Development Project Request for Proposals (RFP), which is accepting submissions until February 2, 2025.

For more information, check out the Catalyst RFP and RSVP for this workshop.