At our recent Joint Lobby Day with the California Federation of Labor & the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California, we pushed for the legislation below. We’ll keep you updated about where our statewide legislation goes, and how you can help get it passed.

2026 Legislative Agenda

SB 951 (Reyes) – AI Job Killer Notice: Requires employers that layoff, replace, or stop hiring workers due to AI or automation to give advance notice to workers, state, and local government and for laid off workers to have the right to bid on open positions at the company.

AB 1898 (Schultz) – Workplace AI Right to Know Act: Requires employers to give workers advance notice before they implement technology tools that collect worker data along with what data is being collected, when and how data is collected, and how the employer will use it and for what purpose. Co-sponsored with Teamsters.

AB 1883 (Bryan) – Stop AI Strip Searches: Prohibits employers from using potentially biased, invasive, and exploitative forms of AI surveillance at the workplace or from using AI to infer personal information about workers. Co-sponsored with Teamsters.

AB 2027 (Ward) – Robot Replacement Training Prevention Act: Prohibits employers from selling or using worker data to train AI to replicate, automate, or replace human workers and their jobs. Co-sponsored with Teamsters.

SB 947 (McNerney) – No Robot Bosses Act: Bans robot bosses and requires human oversight and corroborating evidence if an algorithm is used in disciplinary or termination decisions at work and requires employers to notify workers if algorithms are used in discipline or firing. Co-sponsored with Teamsters.

AB 2575 (Ortega) – Health Care by Humans Act: Regulates the use of AI to ensure health care workers can exercise their clinical, professional judgment and holds developers accountable for patient harm caused by AI tools. Co-sponsored with CNA.

SB 928 (Cervantes) – Keep Faculty Human: Prohibits universities and colleges from replacing faculty with artificial intelligence. Co-sponsored with CFA.

SB 1011 (McNerney) – Utility Infrastructure AI Safety, Oversight, and Workforce Protection Act: Ensures human oversight of the state’s electrical and gas infrastructure, requires advance notice of employer deployment of technology, and prohibits erosion or replacement of human jobs. Co-sponsored with Engineers and Scientists of California, IFPTE Local 20 and Utility Workers Union of America.

AB 1331 (Elhawary) – Workplace Protected Spaces: Bans the use of any surveillance tool in bathrooms and other spaces at the workplace. Co-sponsored with Teamsters.

AB 33 (Aguiar-Curry) – Require Human Operators for Driverless Delivery:
Protects jobs and public safety by requiring a human safety operator in driverless
commercial delivery vehicles. Co-sponsored with Teamsters.

Taking on Tech: Labor’s Fight for the Future of Workers. From ChatGPT to Robot Bosses
and driverless cars, employers are using tech tools to replace, surveil, manage, and degrade
work and workers. These bills are first steps to establish new labor standards for the 21st
century—worker technology rights.

AB 1776 (Aguiar-Curry) – Corporate Monopoly Prevention Act: Corporate consolidation and monopoly power raise prices, suppress wages, and make it even harder for workers to organize. This bill will increase the power of the state to prevent monopolies and monopsonies, breaking up corporate power to benefit workers, consumers, and the public. Co-sponsored with UFCW, Teamsters, NNU-CNA, WGAW, and SEIU CA.

AB 1439 (Garcia) – Labor Standards on Pension Fund Investments: Union pension funds should support good job creation by investing in sustainable companies that respect workers’ rights. This bill will require a study of how to implement labor standards that protect workers and ensure an adequate return for retirees. Co-sponsored with Trades.

SB 909 (Smallwood-Cuevas) – Public Works Labor Law Enforcement: Increases and indexes to inflation the penalties on contractors that violate public works laws. Penalty funds will be reinvested into the Division of Industrial Relations crack-down on wage theft and other violations. Co-sponsored with Operating Engineers and Ironworkers.

Advanced Manufacturing CEQA Streamlining Labor Standards: The 2025 budget exempted advanced manufacturing facilities from CEQA, allowing manufacturers to skirt state and community oversight. This proposal sets labor standards to ensure good jobs to build and operate manufacturing facilities. Co-sponsored with Trades and UAW.

Budget

Election Transparency: A number of potential ballot initiatives threaten unions, state revenue, and services. We will continue our work to increase transparency on the ballot of the top funders of petition-gathering to put measures on the ballot.

Corporate Fair Share Revenues: We will work with unions to make sure corporations pay their fair share in taxes to ensure the state can continue to provide essential public services including health care, public benefits, and more.

Public Employment Relations Board: Recent bills gave PERB important new authority to adjudicate private sector union issues, as well as take over federal mediation functions. We will work to ensure that PERB is fully funded and has the most competent Board members and staff to continue their public sector work and to take on their new responsibilities