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For all affiliated SDICLC unions and orgs, if you have an event to share, please send the following information about your event to Luca de Sanctis Barton at lbarton@unionyes.org
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"People Over Billionaires": Scores to Demand End to Military Occupation and ICE Kidnappings
This action connects two urgent crises facing working families: the deployment of over 2,000 armed National Guard troops to Washington D.C. and the earlier military deployment to Los Angeles, alongside the ongoing use of tax dollars to fund surveillance technology that enables ICE kidnappings and deportations. Instead of investing billions in education, healthcare, and community services, our government is pouring resources into military occupation and corporate surveillance contracts that enrich right-wing billionaires like Peter Thiel while terrorizing immigrant communities.
SDICLC Political Coordinators Meeting 09/19/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions.
The SDICLC Political Coordinators Meeting is a space for our affiliated unions’ Political Staff to come together to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
Yes on 50 Unions Walk Campaign Kickoff!
ANTI-UNION TRUMP IS RIGGING THE 2026 ELECTION. WE'RE FIGHTING BACK.
At Trump’s command, Texas Republicans are stealing five congressional seats to lock in power and crush workers' rights. We’re not letting them get away with it.
Prop 50 is California’s answer. It’s a temporary, voter-approved plan to level the playing field and stop a stolen Congress. This is how we defend our democracy and protect our unions from Trump's anti-working class agenda.
The fight starts NOW. Join us to kick off our YES ON PROP 50 campaign:
📅 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
⏰ 9 AM - NOON
📍 Orange Park 1475 4th Ave, Chula Vista 91911 (map)
🚨 RSVP here!
We’ll be talking to likely supportive union members and neighbors on fighting back by voting YES on Prop 50. Sometimes, to save democracy, you have to fight for it ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏼
Bring your family, friends, and coworkers and please RSVP here!
Share our social media post to get the word out!
Safety in Unity 2025
Join, learn, plot, and dream at TRUST Coalition's Safety in Unity conference. Educate and organize for the fight against mass #surveillance in #sandiego!
September 20
11am - 3pm
City Heights
RSVP here!
Trust SD is thrilled to hear a keynote from @lorenasgonzalez, President @CaliforniaLabor
Trust SD is hosting conversations and breakouts on:
* Labor
* Immigration
* Solidarity and the fight ahead
Lunch will be provided.
Trust SD on twitter
Trust SD would like to thank the amazing @joeorephoto for his photography of our movement and permission to use his images for this conference.
SDICLC Delegates Meeting 09/24/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions. Each affiliated union receives a number of delegates in proportion to their total membership size. Delegates come together to discuss ways to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
Imperial County Unions Meeting 10/03/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions.
The Imperial County Unions Meeting is a space for our affiliated Imperial County unions to come together to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
SDICLC Political Coordinators Meeting 10/17/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions.
The SDICLC Political Coordinators Meeting is a space for our affiliated unions’ Political Staff to come together to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
SDICLC Delegates Meeting 10/22/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions. Each affiliated union receives a number of delegates in proportion to their total membership size. Delegates come together to discuss ways to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
Imperial County Unions Meeting 11/07/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions.
The Imperial County Unions Meeting is a space for our affiliated Imperial County unions to come together to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
For information regarding these SDICLC Imperial County Unions Meetings you can reach out to our Lead Organizer, Kim Palacio, at kpalacio@unionyes.org
SDICLC Political Coordinators Meeting 11/21/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions.
The SDICLC Political Coordinators Meeting is a space for our affiliated unions’ Political Staff to come together to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
SDICLC Delegates Meeting 11/26/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions. Each affiliated union receives a number of delegates in proportion to their total membership size. Delegates come together to discuss ways to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
Imperial County Unions Meeting 12/05/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions.
The Imperial County Unions Meeting is a space for our affiliated Imperial County unions to come together to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
For information regarding these SDICLC Imperial County Unions Meetings you can reach out to our Lead Organizer, Kim Palacio, at kpalacio@unionyes.org
SDICLC Political Coordinators Meeting 01/16/2026
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions.
The SDICLC Political Coordinators Meeting is a space for our affiliated unions’ Political Staff to come together to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
SDICLC Delegates Meeting 01/28/2026
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions. Each affiliated union receives a number of delegates in proportion to their total membership size. Delegates come together to discuss ways to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
SUPPORT Community Trust Resolution (Oceanside)
Join us to demand the Oceanside City Council pass the Community Trust Resolution—a critical policy to protect immigrant families, workers, and tenants from ICE raids and unjust deportations.
This resolution will:
Require judicial warrants for ICE to access non-public city property
Prohibit city resources from being used for immigration enforcement
Protect residents’ private data from being shared with ICE
Fund “Know Your Rights” outreach and crisis support
The Oceanside Community Trust Resolution is up for a vote—and we’re one vote short.
✊🏾✊🏿✊🏼 How to help:
1. Send an organizational support letter to Oceanside City Council in support of this item by Tuesday 9/16 here.
2. Join us in-person on 9/17 at 5:00 pm for the Oceanside City Council Meeting. Register here!
3. Send an email and make calls to Oceanside City Council Members to let them know you support this Resolution! Click here for the advocacy toolkit in English and Spanish
Hospitality $25/hr MINIMUM Wage (City of San Diego)
FINAL Hospitality $25/hr MINIMUM Wage Vote
The tourism industry made a $22 BILLION impact in San Diego last year (San Diego Tourism Authority), yet too many tourism workers still make poverty wages.
On Tuesday, September 16, the San Diego City Council will vote on a historic proposal to raise wages for hotel, janitorial, amusement park, and event center workers across the city. This will hep raise the wage floor for ALL San Diego workers.
1. Sign + share the petition! mysandiego.info/wage
2. Join us at San Diego City Council:
🗓 Tuesday, September 16, 2025
🕘 2:00 PM
📍 San Diego City Hall, 202 C St, San Diego, CA 92101 (map)
Bring your family, friends, coworkers, and voice! Together, we can make San Diego a city that works for everyone—not just billion-dollar corporations.
Share our social media posts to help raise the wage!
instagram Sign Petition + Tuesday post
instagram Tuesday City Council post
Protect our Veterans! VA Workers National Day of Action
Join National Nurses United on September 12th for our National VA Day of Action to demand Members of Congress stand with the veteran patients who rely on the VA and the nurses and federal workers who keep the department running. It’s time for our elected Representatives to stand with us in our fight for a fully funded VA where our workers have the resources and protected rights to provide safe patient care.
Imperial County Unions Meeting 09/05/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions.
The Imperial County Unions Meeting is a space for our affiliated Imperial County unions to come together to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
LABOR DAY MARCH!
Your SDICLC is teaming up with unions, local pro-democracy groups, and the No Kings coalition to mobilize against this anti-working class dictator of a President and complicit GOP to fight for a world where everyone is supported, their needs met, and opportunity for all is real and abundant.
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
LABOR DAY RALLY + MARCH
Monday, September 1
10:00 am
Waterfront Park
1600 Pacific Highway, San Diego, CA 92101
San Diego Unions Mass
Unions, organized workers, have our biggest wins when we organize militantly, bottom-up from within AND with the broader community. So, it just makes sense for unions to build relationships where the broader community is already organized, like religious spaces, because we're going to need all the power we can muster to change this world so that it puts people over profits.
Please join us Labor Day weekend for a San Diego Unions Mass as we share our pro-worker message and build relationships:
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church
4540 El Cerrito Dr. San Diego, CA 92115
Sunday, August 31
10:30 AM
SEIU 221 Labor History Talks: Cross Border Organizing
RSVP for the zoom: seiu221.org/history
Learn about Tijuana Workers Rising: the New Union Across the Border.
Virtual Labor History Talks
7:00 PM
Thursday, Aug. 28
Join us at this meeting where we will hear from organizers from Casa Obrera, the newly organized Luxshare factory in Tijuana and others. Find out how we can support these workers as they fight to raise their standards, and raise the floor for all workers on both sides of the border. With @sdiclaborcouncil and #laborsolidarityactionnetwork
Interested in presenting? Email laborhistorytalks@gmail.com
For more events from SEIU 221, please visit: seiu221.org/events
SDICLC Delegates Meeting 08/27/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions. Each affiliated union receives a number of delegates in proportion to their total membership size. Delegates come together to discuss ways to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
Nonviolent Direct Action Training
They have money and weapons. We have each other—and that’s how we win.
Join the San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO, the UCSD Labor Center, and many community groups for a free, hands-on training to learn the skills we need to:
✊🏾✊🏿✊🏼 Organize our workplaces and communities
🚫 Disrupt injustice—from ICE raids to corporate greed
💪🏽💪🏿💪🏼 Protect each other through strategic, nonviolent action
Why now?
• Billionaires just stole $4.5 trillion from our schools and hospitals
• ICE’s unchecked violence is terrorizing families in our backyards
• Our movements are strongest when we fight shoulder to shoulder, all together
This isn’t just a workshop—it’s how we build a people’s army for justice.
Open to all workers, students, and community members. No experience needed—just courage.
Reserve your seat by August 15!
Click here to sign-up to become a trainer at the training!
Reserve your seat for the training: bit.ly/aug19trainingrsvp
Family-Day Rally to Defend Childcare
Head start is essential, and it is under attack! That is why we are continuing our activism to support children and vital early education. Bring your family and teach kids why civic engagement is critical in our democracy.
Family-day rally to defend childcare
🗓️ 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 16
📍Waterfront Park San Diego
👉 Sign up! seiu221.org/family
Congress and the Trump administration are making cuts that threaten programs like Head Start, putting free, high-quality early childhood education at risk for thousands of working families in San Diego. This puts the future of thousands of the youngest San Diego residents at risk.
Join us for a family-friendly day of activism and artmaking to defend Head Start, stand up for justice and teach kids the power of civic engagement:
✅ Children’s puppet show and parade
✅ Collaborative banner-making and protest sign-making station
✅ A short, child-friendly march
✅ Send letters and drawings to Congress
Parking is limited. Please take public transit if possible.
SDICLC Political Coordinators Meeting 08/15/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions.
The SDICLC Political Coordinators Meeting is a space for our affiliated unions’ Political Staff to come together to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
SDICLC Annual Dinner: Laborpalooza 2: Boots Goofin'!
LABORPALOOZA 2: (COWBOY) BOOTS ON THE GROUND!
SDICLC’s Annual Fundraiser Dinner
DATE: SATURDAY, August 9
TIME: 5:30 PM
LOCATION: 1600 Pacific Coast Highway, San Diego, CA 92101
Cowboy Boots, Union Roots!
Join us for a musical cowpoke spectacular including line dancing for all!
Come dressed as your favorite country musical artist, any musical artist or counter culture icon or whatever floats your boat, it’s a musical solidarity festival!
FOR TICKETS AND SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES PLEASE EMAIL SDICLC@UNIONYES.ORG OR CLICK HERE
UCSD NURSES - UC Statewide Day of Action!
CNA NURSE ALERT
CONTRACT BARGAINING BEGINS
UCSD NURSES ARE READY TO FIGHT!
As we approach the expiration of our Union contract on October 31, 2025, we need to be ready to face the long fight ahead of us. Under the ongoing attacks on labor, healthcare, and civil liberties, we must be ready to negotiate with the University of California for more than 25,000 workers across the state.
We call on all UC nurses to pledge your participation on August 6th and send a strong message to UC. We must demonstrate that we are ready to fight for a contract that uplifts our profession and communities. Together, we will take collective action as union members and secure the contract we deserve!
When: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Where: UCSD Hillcrest Medical Center (map)
200 W Arbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92103
Meet in front of the Main Entrance lawn
Recall Anti-Public School Scott Eckert - Signature Gathering
Join @grossmonteducators + @recallthetrusteesguhsd (follow them too!) to gather signatures from friendly teacher households to recall anti-public education school board member Scott Eckert. 3 of the GUHSD school board members are tied to far right private religious schools who are trying to destroy GUHSD public schools from the inside (not to mention all the other corrupt actions they've taken). An attack on public education anywhere, is an attack on public education everywhere.
Follow their social accounts, find out more information and how you can support at RecallTheTrustees.com
Imperial County Unions Meeting 08/01/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions.
The Imperial County Unions Meeting is a space for our affiliated Imperial County unions to come together to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
UNAC/UHCP Info. Picket Against Kaiser's Greed
Join @kaisersandiegounac healthcare workers in their fight for a fair contract that puts patients and workers over Kaiser's extreme greed.
RSVP here! (UNACUHCP.ORG/ACTIONS)
Families First Day of Action w/ SEIU-UHW
Join SEIU-UHW’s "Families First" Day of Action – Saturday July 26
Our families deserve better—let’s show up together!
On Saturday, July 26, SEIU-UHW is leading a Families First Day of Action at Waterfront Park (10 AM–12 PM)—and we’re rallying every union family, ally, and neighbor to stand up against policies that hurt our communities.
Why we’re marching:
To demand Medicaid, school lunches, and food stamps—not tax cuts for billionaires
To show Trump and corrupt politicians that our families come first
To build power with a family-friendly rally (kids welcome—special activities included!)
RSVP here!
This is part of a national day of action—let’s make San Diego’s voice loud and clear!
SDICLC Delegates Meeting 07/23/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions. Each affiliated union receives a number of delegates in proportion to their total membership size. Delegates come together to discuss ways to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just world with abundant opportunity for all.
UCSD STRIKE w AFSCME 3299
✊🏾✊🏿✊🏼 Stand with AFSCME 3299 at UCSD Strike – TUESDAY July 22
Frontline workers at UCSD Hillcrest need us!
On Monday, July 22, AFSCME 3299 is holding a one-day unfair labor practice strike to protest UCSD’s layoffs of essential workers—all while expanding executive pay and outsourcing critical services.
How you can help:
📍 Join the rally at 11:30 AM at UCSD Hillcrest Med Center, 200 W Arbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92103 (map)
📢 Bring your union pride—signs, voices, and solidarity
💪🏽💪🏿💪🏼 Stand with patient care workers demanding reinstatement
• Share AFSCME 3299’s social media post on the strike:
This is a fight for all of us—when UCSD attacks one union, they attack our entire union movement. See you on the strike line!
SDICLC San Diego Pride Parade Contingent
If you’re a union member in one of our affiliated unions, please join our San Diego Pride contingent:
RSVP to join our Unions SD Pride contingent here!
Otherwise, come out to enjoy the San Diego Pride parade Saturday, July 19 @ 11:00 am in Hillcrest!
SDICLC Political Coordinators Meeting 07/18/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions.
The SDICLC Political Coordinators Meeting is a space for our affiliated unions’ Political Staff to come together to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TRAINING
JOIN US & GET ON THE BUS FOR THE LARGEST
NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION Training
Hosted by the Los Angeles Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
THURSDAY July 10
Bus, sponsored by the UCSD Labor Center, from San Diego to LA leaves from the United Labor Center @ 1:00 pm
United Labor Center
3737 Camino del Rio South, San Diego, CA 92108
Training is at the Los Angeles Convention Center from 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Imperial County Unions Meeting 07/03/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions.
The Imperial County Unions Meeting is a space for our affiliated Imperial County unions to come together to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
For information regarding these SDICLC Imperial County Unions Meetings you can reach out to our Lead Organizer, Kim Palacio, at kpalacio@unionyes.org
06/29 United Unions Walk: Paloma for Supervisor!
United Unions Walk: Paloma Aguirre for San Diego County Supervisor!
Breakfast and Lunch Sponsor: SDCBCTC and SDICLC
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Egger-South Bay Park (map)
1885 Coronado Ave, San Diego, CA 92154
06/28 United Unions Walk: Paloma for Supervisor!
United Unions Walk: Paloma Aguirre for San Diego County Supervisor!
Breakfast and Lunch Sponsor: IBEW 569 - Electrical Workers
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Portwood Pier Plaza (map)
940 Seacoast Dr, Imperial Beach, CA 91932
Phone Bank to Tell the Senate: Fund Care, Not Billionaires
CNA/NNU is hosting this phonebank to call seniors in North Carolina and Maine where you'll be telling them about impending cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, and helping patch them through to Senator Tillis and Senator Collins' offices to ask them to vote against the budget bill.
SDICLC Delegates Meeting 06/25/2025
The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO (SDICLC), an affiliate of the state CA Labor Fed and the national AFL-CIO, is a democratic organization comprised of over 100 affiliated local unions. Each affiliated union receives a number of delegates in proportion to their total membership size. Delegates come together to discuss ways to grow our union movement, build solidarity among each other as well as the broader community, and otherwise work toward a more democratic and just community with abundant opportunity for all.
Phone Bank to Tell the Senate: Fund Care, Not Billionaires
CNA/NNU is hosting this phonebank to call seniors in North Carolina and Maine where you'll be telling them about impending cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, and helping patch them through to Senator Tillis and Senator Collins' offices to ask them to vote against the budget bill.
06/22 United Unions Walk: Paloma for Supervisor!
United Unions Walk: Paloma Aguirre for San Diego County Supervisor!
Breakfast and Lunch Sponsor: SDCBCTC and SDICLC
Date: Sunday, June 22, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Friendship Park (map)
Corner of Davidson Street and Garrett Avenue in Chula Vista
06/21 United Unions Walk: Paloma for Supervisor!
United Unions Walk: Paloma Aguirre for San Diego County Supervisor!
Breakfast and Lunch Sponsor: UNITE HERE 30 - Hotel & Hospitality Workers
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Egger-South Bay Park (map)
1885 Coronado Ave, San Diego, CA 92154