On Labor Day 2025, working people are coming together across race, rising up not just to name what’s broken, but to take action and build a future rooted in care, dignity, and justice. We refuse to be silent as billionaires slash care, gut services, raid public dollars, or scapegoat immigrants to keep us divided.
Labor Day isn’t just a long weekend. It’s a day to celebrate the dignity and power of working people, and a call for each of us to keep imagining and building better futures for our families:
- Not just minimum wages, thriving wages.
- Not just safety at work, but also wellbeing and joy in our lives.
- Not just food on the table, but real prosperity in our homes.
This year, the meaning of Labor Day is more urgent than ever. In July, Republicans in Congress passed the Big Billionaire Budget, the biggest steal of working people’s money ever. It guts Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California), the program that funds long-term care and keeps our clients, residents, and families afloat. These cuts will take healthcare away from 16 million people, close hospitals and nursing homes, and slash home and community-based services all to give tax breaks to billionaires and corporations and billions more to ICE to terrorize immigrant families.
That’s why this Labor Day, the long-term care workers of SEIU Local 2015 will join peaceful demonstrations at dozens of events across the state. We’re uniting across place, race, and industry with food service workers, child care providers, airport staff, state employees, and not-yet-union workers to stand for our rights, our dignity, and our vision of a Future of Care:
- Quality, dignified, and affordable healthcare for all.
- Thriving wages and benefits for every long-term care worker.
- Fully funded public services that support freedom and dignity for every community.
- The right for every worker to organize, bargain, and shape their future.
When working people gather in large numbers, we change the balance of power at the bargaining table, at the ballot box, and in our communities. Labor Day 2025 isn’t the end of summer. It’s the start of #SolidaritySeason.