With Child Care In Crisis Across California, Parents, Advocates And K-12 Leaders Join Providers To Demand Governor Newsom & Legislators Support Early Educators
Child care providers who are members of Child Care Providers United (CCPU) were joined by parents, community members, school educators and advocates today as they held socially distanced rallies in San Diego, Los Angeles and Oakland to demand state leaders stop ignoring California’s child care crisis. Their actions implored Governor Newsom and state legislators to […]
Sign the petition and demand that California’s leaders end our state’s child care crisis, NOW!
Dear Governor Newsom, President pro Tempore Atkins, and Speaker Rendon – We, the undersigned providers, parents with children enrolled in child care, and child care allies, urge you to take immediate action to address California’s child care crisis. In partnership with Child Care Providers United (CCPU), which represents over 40,000 providers statewide, the majority of […]
After Trump Walks Away From Stimulus Talks, Newsom And Legislature Must Choose Between Taxing The Wealthy Or Taxing Struggling Women Of Color Who Provide Child Care
COVID-19 has been an economic disaster for child care providers who provide crucial care for children of frontline workers Max Arias, Chairperson of Child Care Providers United (CCPU), issued the following statement on behalf of the 40,000 child care providers in California represented by CCPU in response to news of the Trump administration ending negotiations […]
Early Childhood Coalition Joins 40,000 Child Care Providers Calling On State Leaders To Save System In Crisis
5,000 child care providers have been forced out of business this year A coalition of 77 organizations, committed to improving child care access in California, sent a letter to Governor Newsom, President pro Tempore Atkins, and Speaker Rendon today, urging the state leaders to take immediate action to save California’s child care system, and thus […]
Read Our New Coalition Letter
Providers have been busy sounding the alarm on California’s child care crisis which has led over 5,251 of us to close our doors. Last week, CCPU, parents, community allies, and our larger union family, took action statewide in socially distanced car caravans and press conferences outside Gov. Newsom’s offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento […]
Child Care in Crisis, Day of Action – 9/30/20
California’s child care system was already in crisis before the pandemic, and now our struggles have only gotten worse. Over 5,000 child care providers have closed their doors in 2020, while thousands more are facing challenges that are only getting harder. But unions are made for this exact moment. To create real change, we […]
Union vote highlights coronavirus crisis for California’s home day-care providers
After close to two decades of organizing and legislative struggle, tens of thousands of early childhood educators and home day-care proprietors will vote this month on whether to unionize, a move many hope will reinvigorate California’s ailing child-care system in a moment of unprecedented crisis for millions of working families. “People need to understand, we’re […]
We Won Financial Stability in New California Budget!
Family child care providers won steady finances in the state budget the Governor Newsom signed June 29 for July 1st 2020 – June 30, 2021. More than 3,000 family child care providers sent messages via email and text to key legislators and the governor to stop proposed cuts to rates—and keep payments flowing to child […]
‘We Do Need This Change’: Child Care Union Election Underway
After more than a decade of fighting for the right to bargain for better pay, California child care providers will vote on unionizing.
Child care providers launch union organizing effort
FAIRFIELD — Allison Davis wants to empower home-based child care providers. “Child care keeps America working . . . and child care is critical to any economic recovery,” Davis said. She said the time is ripe for the movement to create Child Care Providers United.
