United Voice union wants child care workers to get $10 per hour pay rise
EXCERPTS:CHILDCARE workers are demanding taxpayers give them a $10 per hour pay rise - on top of the $300m wage increase just granted by the federal government.The United Voice union has declared it...
View ArticleStage set for vote to unionize private child-care workers in R.I.
EXCERPTS:While the National Right to Work Foundation objects from afar, the Chafee administration has signed an agreement that sets the stage for a vote, within the next two months, on the drive to...
View ArticleEdmonton Garrison home to first unionized military daycare
EXCERPTS:A vote held last week determined the Edmonton Garrison Military Family Resource Society will become the first unionized military daycare in Canada.Employees of the society voted 13-4 in...
View ArticleProfessional pay for professional work
ECE Link, Summer/Fall 2013 Latest issue of ece Link from the Association of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario (AECEO) examines how ECEs in Ontario can get professional pay for professional work....
View ArticleRI home-based childcare workers vote overwhelmingly to unionize
EXCERPTS:Home-based child-care providers in Rhode Island have voted overwhelmingly to unionize, giving them the ability to negotiate with the state over reimbursement rates and benefits.After four days...
View ArticleState, union agree to contract for 4,000 home-based child care providers
EXCERPTS:Home-based child care providers caring for the state's poorest children would receive a 10 percent rate incrase over the next three years under the terms of a first-ever contract negotiated...
View ArticleState Child Care Providers Get First Raise in 12 Years
EXCERPTS:Family child care providers in the Connecticut Care 4 Kids program are receiving their first raise in 12 years.Home-based child care providers, union officials and Gov. Dannel Malloy today...
View ArticleEarly childhood educators partner with Union and Workers' Centre, score...
EXCERPTSOn May 1st at the Statehouse, Vermont early childhood educator Kay Curtis led 800 people chanting "union power is on the rise, now's the time to organize." Five days later, she and her fellow...
View ArticleChildcare providers poised to bargain with Vermont over subsidies
EXCERPTS:Home childcare providers who take state subsidies can now form a union, under a law signed into law by Gov. Peter Shumlin on Thursday.About 1,400 childcare providers now have the option to...
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