Representing state workers, protecting state services

CSEA coordinates political and legislative lobbying efforts on behalf its affiliates. We provide: 

• Professional advocacy for legislation advancing the wages, benefits and working conditions of affiliate members, and against legislation that would adversely affect them.
• Legislative advocacy supporting maintenance and improvement of state services. 
• Coordination of affiliate participation in Get-Out-the-Vote activities

The CSEA Governmental Affairs staff reviews all bills introduced each year in the state Legislature with an eye to their effect on our affiliates and their members. We monitor bills from rough draft to final form, provide testimony, help prepare members and affiliate leaders to testify and lobby, and meet with relevant legislators to discuss bills in which we are interested.

We participate in the budget process, working closely with the staffs of the budget subcommittees to protect state services and to make sure raises and benefits affecting affiliate members are funded. We participate actively in Senate Rules Committee hearings where appointments to various governmental boards and agencies are voted upon.

We interact regularly with legislators and their staff members; as well as with the Department of Personnel Administration, Public Employees Retirement System, the Department of Finance, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office.

We coordinate our efforts with our affiliates, with the SEIU State Council, local labor councils, and coalitions such as the Labor Coalition and Californians for Retirement Health Care Security.

Representing state workers, protecting state services

CSEA coordinates political and legislative lobbying efforts on behalf its affiliates. We provide: 

• Professional advocacy for legislation advancing the wages, benefits and working conditions of affiliate members, and against legislation that would adversely affect them.
• Legislative advocacy supporting maintenance and improvement of state services. 
• Coordination of affiliate participation in Get-Out-the-Vote activities

The CSEA Governmental Affairs staff reviews all bills introduced each year in the state Legislature with an eye to their effect on our affiliates and their members. We monitor bills from rough draft to final form, provide testimony, help prepare members and affiliate leaders to testify and lobby, and meet with relevant legislators to discuss bills in which we are interested.

We participate in the budget process, working closely with the staffs of the budget subcommittees to protect state services and to make sure raises and benefits affecting affiliate members are funded. We participate actively in Senate Rules Committee hearings where appointments to various governmental boards and agencies are voted upon.

We interact regularly with legislators and their staff members; as well as with the Department of Personnel Administration, Public Employees Retirement System, the Department of Finance, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office.

We coordinate our efforts with our affiliates, with the SEIU State Council, local labor councils, and coalitions such as the Labor Coalition and Californians for Retirement Health Care Security.