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: 2/24/2006 7:05:00 AM Author: Karen Subject: unionize childcare The fact is that unions have a history of honorably upgrading the working conditions and salaries of workers. They have a history of protecting those with no voice and no power. They have a history that can be documented, of helping workers secure a living wage and increase their job security. this is valuable and important in a field where wages are rock bottom low and insulting, where workers face a lack of training, job security, and qualified leadership. These pluses overshadow whatever minuses may exist in union representation. But it doesnt take an expert to recognize that historically it is the top level of management and the corporate heads that want to discourage unions, and to believe that they do so with the workers in mind is laughable!!!! If they fear it, there is a good reason. they dont want to pay you more! They dont want you to have job security! They want to continue to pocket 98% of the profit associated with raising the nations children in childcare centers, not share it with the staff who are in the clasrooms giving their heart and soul to others while accepting the pay rate of a dishwasher. I hope that childcare workers are not so ignorant as to believe that things as they stand now are "good enough". I hope they realize that nobody is striving to improve things for them, as it would cut into corporate profit. They hand out just the minimum and spend more on marketing that minimum to you, hoping you believe it hook, line, and sinker. Unfortunately, many of these undereducated childcare workers will be frightened of something their bosses warn them against. Sad. But they really should consider the source! It is time for childcare workers to get what they deserve. Unions are the tool to assist them. that is the truth. it is the historical truth. It is logical. And it is going to change drastically a field that has been kept at the lowest level of training, wages, status, respect, and retention for far too long. Name: Email: Subject

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