CAPS, UAW Local 1115

Trump’s cuts to research funding threaten lifesaving work on cancer, chronic disease, disaster relief & more. UAW members are taking action around an ambitious plan: establish a CA research foundation w/$23 billion in funding to keep critical work alive. nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/…

Huge thanks for insight & support from @ucblaborcenter, @californialabor, @CA_bldg_trades, @rooseveltinst, @isabel_estevez_, @buildingdecarb, @BGAlliance, @MoveCAFWD, @public_citizen, @JobsMoveAmerica, @NewEnergyNexus, @CAgobiz, @bkettenring, @BigMeanInternet, @NRDC, & many more!

First step is to #PassSB787 !! @SenMcNerney @GavinNewsom @caspeakerrivas @BuffyWicks

*NEW REPORT*⚡Organize, Industrialize, Decarbonize! A Pro-Worker, Green Industrial Policy for California ⚡lays out a strategic vision to create tens of thousands of green, union jobs and lower the cost of clean energy. static1.squarespace.com/static/660d872…

Our new report calls for a comprehensive CA industrial strategy that delivers for the working class - with good jobs, lower energy prices, & more decarb. Critical 1st step: @caleg must #PassSB787 @SenMcNerney! @GavinNewsom @caspeakerrivas @asmbuffywicks static1.squarespace.com/static/660d872…

Yesterday UAW members from across California met with legislators in Sacramento to urge support for bills that advance climate & worker justice: 🌍SB 787: Equitable clean energy & good jobs 🚆SB 63: Bay Area transit funding 🐟AB 1319: Protect endangered species + science jobs

Through our collective actions, CAPS-UAW Scientists reached an agreement with the state to suspend the administration’s 4-day Return to Office (RTO), with no strings attached. Together, we committed to protecting our rights and refused to trade the RTO delay for salary cuts.

news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re… One of the few unions subject to Gov. Newsom’s return-to-office mandate says it’s being “singled out” and “retaliated” against for not re-opening its labor contract in exchange for concessions. “We will continue to organize and enforce our rights,” the California Association of Professional Scientists said. “We are literally a group of mad scientists.”

The California Labor Movement stands in strong solidarity with our brother David Huerta. We demand his immediate release! @seiucalifornia

UAW Region 6 members call for the immediate release of David Huerta, President of @seiucalifornia and @seiuusww, who was detained and injured during an ICE raid in Los Angeles while exercising his First Amendment right to peacefully observe.

Check out your CAPS-UAW's Summer Camp virtual training series. If you want to know more about your rights, are interested in leadership, or getting involved in your Union, this series is for you. capsscientists.org/summer-camp-tr…

The Governor proposed balancing California’s 2025–2026 budget on the backs of State Workers. 

We ask CAPS-UAW members attend the budget subcommittees meetings or call legislators who will debate the governor's May Revise. linktr.ee/capsscientists

This week, our union members hit the California Capitol to lobby #CALeg lawmakers on key labor priorities this session, including protecting workers from robo bosses and AI surveillance and guaranteeing a real right to form a union. #UnionCA

. @CaliforniaLabor Prez @LorenaSGonzalez @ LA #FightOligarchy rally shares the most important Q to ask leaders & electeds: Which side are you on? Are you w/ workers, breaking our backs to make ends meet, or on the side of corporate oligarchs who union bust & profit off our labor?

At today’s @BernieSanders @AOC Fighting Oligarchy tour in LA, @UAW members joined the biggest rally yet, and Region 6 Director Mike Miller spoke on the importance of working people organizing more unions and building the movement for May Day 2028.

Hear from @UAW President Shawn Fain why thousands of UAW members across the country are taking action to kill the Trump administration’s cuts to lifesaving research, healthcare, and education.
The fight is far from over — find more information at killthecuts.org.

We are out in FORCE today to tell this administration to keep its #HandsOff of our unions! Here’s the scene in Roseville!

Cancer, Alzheimer’s, rare diseases—NIH & CDC funds the fight against them all. We can’t afford to go backwards. Join an action near you on April 8th to demand Trump #KillTheCuts killthecuts.org

This Saturday, April 5th, America’s union members are coming together to at events across the country to send President Trump, Elon Musk, and their billionaire friends a message: #HandsOff our unions and our contracts! ✊ Find an event near you: mobilize.us/handsoff

Trump’s proposed cuts to NIH funding jeopardize medical research that benefits millions of working people. On April 8, UAW members across the country are taking action to demand our reps #KillTheCuts and save lifesaving research, healthcare, & education. killthecuts.org