Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 10/23/2005 7:13:00 AM Author: Terri Subject: unionize I agree with the statement that daycare workers are underpaid. The large corporate daycares are making millions off the parents and the government. the government is already paying millions in vouchers for low income children to attend daycare. Is the profit from institutional care for children and babies being shared with those who do the actual work? No Do most of these undereducated, underpaid women feel that they are getting what they deserve? In some strange way I see the answer as YES! It is bizarre to hear daycare teachers sympathize with the parents financial strain, while accepting their own meager paychecks as justifiable. Many are just brainwashed into believing that they are being taken care of as a few tidbits are thrown their way. The answer to this is to unionize, so that those who cant and wont speak for themselves will have an able negotiating team of experts represent them to corporate heads. Major companies in the USA often own a multiple "brands" of daycare. For instance, Knowledge Learning Corp owns KindeCare, Childrens World, Discovery Centers, Mulberry and many more. It's a billion dollar industry. All of their daycare staff are making federal poverty level wages for a family of 4. Unions need to approach daycare staff to give them the opportunity to make an alternative decision about the quality of their care! that same old song and dance we hear so often in the industry about "quality of care" for children, needs to include the quality of care for teachers. It will happen if the teachers demand more...somebody has to watch all those kids being left with strangers! Name: Email: Subject

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