Welcome to 2025. Anti-labor forces in the US have taken control of the Executive branch, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, and they intend to enact the Project 2025 agenda, a threat against public institutions and the working class.

Now is a perfect time to organize.

The billionaires behind Project 2025 seek to undermine every facet of public health, including Medicare, Medicaid, HHS, VA, NIH, and the CDC. They want to cut programs that support the common good, including the NLRB and CFPB, the EPA and NOAA, Head Start and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

But we know what to expect, we are prepared to organize, and they will not find it so easy to carry out the program they have planned, facing resistance on every front provoked by the damage they inflict. We must channel the resistance into a force that will not only dismantle Project 2025 but also advance a bold movement to build working class power.

We are not satisfied to simply defend Medicare and Medicaid—we want universal health care now. We will not accept the Supreme Court’s decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson to allow the criminalization of homelessness, or Gavin Newsom’s aggressive action to use this new authority in California—we want housing for everyone.

While the rich can bend the electoral system to their will with billions of dollars in dark money, Project 2025 has no popular mandate: its policies are actually extremely unpopular. Meanwhile, unions are the most popular they’ve been in the United States in 60 years.

Since the last time the billionaire boss was union-busting in the White House, petitions for union elections have doubled, the union election win rate has surged to nearly 80%, and union membership has grown by over half a million workers, after decades of decline. The labor movement has been building momentum. Now is an excellent time to organize.

Then again, now is always the right time to organize.

January 20, 2025

STATE OF THE UNIONS ADDRESS

Executive Director Fabrizio Sasso considers the state of our labor movement and sets out a vision for labor organizing in 2025 that is not merely defensive against the assault of Project 2025 but also ambitious and forward thinking, taking advantage of favorable conditions for organizing in the Sacramento metro area. The vision is clear: we must have universal housing and universal health care. All people must have the right to live.

March 6, 2025, 6p-8p

UNION MEMBER FORUM

Following a period for reflection, conversation, and preparation around our inaugural agenda for the year, we are inviting everyone to the Sac CLC office on March 6 at 6pm for a union member forum where we will all discuss concrete action and strategy, particularly around two central organizing issues: health care and housing. In the days and weeks after the forum, we will begin to hit the streets to canvass and mobilize our community around these issues, so prepare yourselves for some big bold organizing campaigns this year. Please register to attend our forum and contribute your valuable perspective to our labor strategy session.

March 15, 2025, 10a-12p

HOUSING CANVASS TRAINING

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.

March 24, 2025, 10a-12p

HEALTH CARE CANVASS TRAINING

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.