Tom Steyer

Tom Steyer attended a UNITE HERE Local 11 rally at SoFi Lake Park on 19 May 2026, lending his California gubernatorial campaign's platform to union workers demanding FIFA act on immigration enforcement, AI Job Displacement, and data privacy. the Union's four explicit demands included a California Attorney General investigation into FIFA's accreditation data handling under the CCPA, public ICE and Border Patrol exclusion declarations, transparency over On Location's hospitality insertion, and a guarantee against AI-driven role displacement. FIFA had not responded to an NLRB charge and California AG complaint filed on 8 May 2026.

Steyer, Born 27 June 1957 in New York City, is a former hedge fund manager who became one of the largest individual donors to Democratic causes in the US. He ran in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, spending over $300 million of his own money before withdrawing before Super Tuesday. He has since focused on climate policy, economic justice, and California politics.

His appearance at the SoFi rally placed the World Cup's Labour and immigration controversies at the intersection of a competitive California gubernatorial race. The rally's expansion of demands beyond immigration — to AI displacement and data privacy — reflects the broader political battle over the tournament's social licence in California, the most populous US host state.