Campaigns and Victories
Current Campaigns
Each year the California Labor for Climate Jobs coalition commits to fighting for policies that will advance our vision of a worker-led transition to a just and climate-safe economy.
Ca Worker Climate Bill of Rights
2025 Policy Agenda:
Featured Bill:
AB694 (McKinnor) –Strengthening 
CA’s Health and Safety Enforcement Workforce
CalOSHA’s chronic understaffing issue has reached crisis levels threatening the health, safety and very lives of California workers. This initiative will lay the groundwork to create pathways to good jobs for the State’s health and safety enforcement agency, ensuring it is fully staffed with inspectors that have worked in the state’s most dangerous workplaces and represent the diversity of California’s workforce.
Victories
Won Biofuel refinery safety to protect workers and Communities
In 2024, our coalition played a key role in successfully passing AB3258 (Bryan) Biofuel Refinery Safety for Workers and Community to ensure that biofuel and other new technology refineries are subject to the more stringent safety protections that are required in petroleum refineries, protecting both workers on the job and surrounding communities.
Supporting Critical Local Services through the Low-Carbon Transition
We are already experiencing refinery closures in fossil fuel dependent counties, leading to potential budget shortfalls that threaten critical public services for residents such as schools, fire departments, transportation and public health— also putting at risk the public sector jobs that provide those services. In the 2023 California State Budget, we successfully advocated and won $250,000 to fund a study of the economic impact to California cities and counties and the ability to provide critical services amidst oil and gas industry contraction.
Won $40 Million for the Displaced Oil and Gas Worker Pilot Program
In 2022 our coalition played a pivotal role in winning $40 million in state funding for the first ever Displaced Oil and Gas Workers pilot program. This program will support workers on the front lines of California’s energy transition in the oil and gas sector who have lost their jobs or are threatened to lose their jobs. As the program is rolled out, we continue to fight to ensure the money will go towards a comprehensive worker-led transition program including direct financial payments to workers, in addition to skills and education training. The program will launch within the Employment Development Department in 2024.