We stand with SEIU workers

Friends,

What Gavin Newsom is doing should set off alarms for every worker in California.

He isn’t just forcing SEIU workers back into the office four days a week. He’s violating collective bargaining, ignoring the data, and doing it because he thinks he can get away with it.

Every study shows hybrid work increases productivity, cuts costs, and helps retain talent. SEIU workers proved that during the pandemic. 

There is no crisis to fix—just a governor chasing headlines at workers’ expense. He wants to punish them with longer commutes, higher gas bills, and fewer protections, all while pretending it’s about “modernizing” government.

Let’s call this what it is: craven resume padding.

Newsom wants to walk onto the presidential debate stage and tell conservatives who will never vote for him that he forced workers back to the office. This is ego, not leadership.

Well, he picked the wrong union. And the wrong year.

Chip in now if you stand with SEIU workers and believe California’s future should be built on dignity, not deception.

California labor has never won by waiting politely. 

We won with grape boycotts, hunger strikes, teacher walkouts, and janitors who shut down streets. With Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, and every worker who dared to say no.

And that’s what SEIU is doing now.

No to broken promises. No to backroom politics. No to another politician who cosplays pro-labor during campaign season, then sells us out once the checks clear.

This is who Gavin Newsom has always been.

He ran on single-payer to win endorsements from nurses and caregivers unions, then buried the bill. He stayed “neutral” while Uber crushed gig workers. He feeds off labor, then stabs them in the back with a press release.

And if you think the next Democrat lining up to take Newsom’s place won’t do the same, you’re kidding yourself.

Their party is so entangled with anti-worker billionaires that it can’t recognize its own betrayal. Randy Weingarten, one of the most visible labor leaders in the country, just resigned from the DNC in protest. Centrist Democrats are showing up to right-wing summits, convinced organized labor is the problem.

I’m not running to manage this corrupt system. I’m running to dismantle the parts that feed on working people and then blame them for being tired.

If you’ve ever put in a shift and been told your struggle is inconvenient, this fight is yours too.

Chip in now to stand with SEIU and every worker who refuses to be stepped on.

Peace and Power,

Butch Ware