Child care professionals are already forming unions in many states with three different local unions for child care: Child Care Providers Together, United Child Care Union, and VOICE. In the past few years, child care professionals have won improvements in states like California, Pennsylvania, New York, Oregon, Minnesota, Iowa, and many others.
Here in Oregon, where I'm writing from, 5000 professionalized in home child care providers just organized a union with Child Care Providers Together and are now gearing up to sit down and negotiate over improvements in licensing, regulatory issues, pay increases, and health insurance benefits!
If you're in the child care field and want more information about how to make improvements through a union in YOUR state, check out this website.
http://www.afscme.org/childcare/index.html
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